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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Faith will move mountains.
March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
Between two stools one falls to the ground.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Fortune favours the brave.
Slow and steady wins the race.
Horses for courses.
There's safety in numbers.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Out of sight, out of mind.
While the cat's away, the mice will play.
All the world loves a lover.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
Marriages are made in heaven.
Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
Might is right.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
The best things in life are free.
It goes without saying.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
The best defence is a good offence.
Misery loves company.
Blood is thicker than water.
Don't cast pearls before swine.
He who hesitates is lost.
Live and learn.
Great minds think alike.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Man does not live by bread alone.
The bread always falls buttered side down.
Hope springs eternal.
Give the Devil his due.
You can't always get what you want.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
Everyone has their price.
It takes a thief to catch a thief .
The apple never falls far from the tree.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
All roads lead to Rome.
Better late than never.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
The Devil is in the details.
No man is an island.
Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
Less said, soon mended.
Go the extra mile.
What goes up must come down.
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Into every life a little rain must fall.
All things must pass.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
For everything there is a season.
Don't change horses in midstream.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
All good things must come to an end.
A dog is a man's best friend.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Silence is golden.
It never rains but it pours.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
Life is what you make it.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite 'em.
It takes one to know one.
There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Opposites attract.
Once a thief, always a thief.
Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
Beat swords into ploughshares.
Half a loaf is better than none.
Time is money.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Bread always falls buttered side down.
Cheats never prosper.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Time flies.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
Put your best foot forward.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
If the mountain won't come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.
Business before pleasure.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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