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Enough is as good as a feast.
Possession is nine points of the law.
Big fish eat little fish.
Count your blessings.
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
The truth will out.
While the cat's away, the mice will play.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
A person is known by the company they keep.
More haste, less speed.
Put your best foot forward.
The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
All good things must come to an end.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Even a worm will turn.
Practice what you preach.
Seeing is believing.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Every picture tells a story.
Cold hands, warm heart.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Set a thief to catch a thief.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Each to their own.
Failing to plan, is planning to fail.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
You are what you eat.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
It's best to be on the safe side.
It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Fish and guests smell after three days.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
A volunteer is worth twenty pressed men.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
All roads lead to Rome.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
It's the singer not the song.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
It's better to give than to receive.
Go the extra mile.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
First impressions are the most lasting.
Love makes the world go round.
All publicity is good publicity.
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door.
He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.
Barking dogs seldom bite.
You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.
Charity covers a multitude of sins.
Any port in a storm.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
For everything there is a season.
Don't upset the apple-cart.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
You can't make bricks without straw.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Let well alone.
All's fair in love and war.
Only fools and horses work.
No rest for the wicked.
All you need is love.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
There is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.
God helps those who help themselves.
All the world loves a lover.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Bad news travels fast.
Wonders will never cease.
There's no time like the present.
Cheats never prosper.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Shrouds have no pockets.
All good things come to those that wait.
The customer is always right.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Don't change horses in midstream.
Softly, softly, catchee monkey.
There's one born every minute.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Don't shoot the messenger.
Never tell tales out of school.
Third time lucky.
It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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