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Don't keep a dog and bark yourself.
It's an ill wind that blows no one any good.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Don't blow your own trumpet.
Hope springs eternal.
Bad money drives out good.
As you sow, so you shall reap.
The wages of sin is death.
More haste, less speed.
Seeing is believing.
If you play with fire, you will get burnt.
Don't burn your bridges behind you.
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
Half a loaf is better than none.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
It's the singer not the song.
If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.
Don't get mad, get even.
There is honour among thieves.
One volunteer is worth ten pressed men.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
To err is human; to forgive divine.
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
It's no use crying over spilt milk.
Quid pro quo.
There's no place like home.
Fight the good fight.
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Never speak ill of the dead.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Hard work never did anyone any harm.
Only the good die young.
In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.
Speak as you find.
If you build it, they will come.
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
Business before pleasure.
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Easy come, easy go.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Time and tide wait for no one.
Count your blessings.
Money doesn't grow on trees.
The best is the enemy of the good.
Christmas comes but once a year.
Knowledge is power.
Watch the doughnut, not the hole.
Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
Look before you leap.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Love will find a way.
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
When the cat's away the mice will play.
Marriages are made in heaven.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.
A fish always rots from the head.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
If you can't be good, be careful.
Time is a great healer.
An man's home is his castle.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
All publicity is good publicity.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise.
Worrying never did anyone any good.
Beware the Ides of March.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Any port in a storm.
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
It takes one to know one.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Every picture tells a story.
Don't let the grass grow under your feet.
A poor worker blames the tools.
Let well alone.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
The more the merrier.
Appearances can be deceptive.
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Talk is cheap.
There's safety in numbers.
All's well that ends well.
What can't be cured must be endured.
Charity begins at home.
There's an exception to every rule.
The Devil has all the best tunes.
It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
There's one born every minute.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Money talks.
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
Good things come in small packages.
While the cat's away, the mice will play.
No rest for the wicked.
Similes
Comparison of two things, with an ellipsis. Complete the simile by explaining how the two things are alike.
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