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Sayings & Proverbs

 * 15 minutes of fame
 * A feather in your cap
 * A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
 * A picture is worth a thousand words
 * A rising tide lifts all boats
 * A rolling stone gathers no moss
 * A stone's throw away
 * Achilles' heel
 * Adage
 * Afghan proverbs
 * After Saturday Comes Sunday
 * All that glitters is not gold
 * All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
 * All's Well That Ends Well
 * An apple a day keeps the doctor away
 * Anti-proverb
 * Aphorism
 * Apples and oranges
 * As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly
 * As the crow flies
 * Average Joe
 * Back-seat driver
 * Bald–hairy
 * Bang for the buck
 * Barking up the wrong tree
 * Bed of roses
 * Between Scylla and Charybdis
 * Between the devil and the deep blue sea
 * Black sheep
 * Bless your heart
 * Blind men and an elephant
 * Blood is thicker than water
 * Blood, toil, tears, and sweat
 * Bread and butter (superstition)
 * Break a leg
 * Buck passing
 * Bum rushing
 * Bum steer
 * Call a spade a spade
 * Carrot and stick
 * Cart before the horse
 * Castle doctrine
 * Cat and mouse
 * Catch-22 (logic)
 * Catchphrase
 * Cheating death
 * Chinaman's chance
 * Chink in one's armor
 * Chip on shoulder
 * Cliché
 * Cloak and dagger
 * Cloud cuckoo land
 * Cold shoulder
 * Colloquialism
 * Crocodile tears
 * Cry Wolf
 * Curiosity killed the cat
 * Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back
 * Cutting off the nose to spite the face
 * Dark horse
 * Dead ringer (idiom)
 * Death and taxes (idiom)
 * Devil's advocate
 * Die with your boots on
 * Don't cross the bridge until you come to it
 * Don't judge a book by its cover
 * Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
 * Down Under
 * Dressing down
 * Duck test
 * Each One Teach One
 * Eating crow
 * Elbow grease
 * Elephant in the room
 * Embarrassment of riches
 * Ends of the Earth (figurative)
 * Even a worm will turn
 * Exception that proves the rule
 * Feet of clay
 * Filipino proverbs
 * Flogging a dead horse
 * Fly in the ointment
 * Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
 * Foot the bill
 * Fortune favours the bold
 * Forty winks
 * Freudian slip
 * Fruit of the poisonous tree
 * Fulani proverbs
 * Get a life (idiom)
 * Get the hell out of Dodge
 * Getting the wind knocked out of you
 * Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
 * Go proverb
 * God helps those who help themselves
 * Going postal
 * Grain of salt
 * Hair's breadth
 * Ham it up
 * Head start (positioning)
 * Heebie-jeebies (idiom)
 * Hobson's choice
 * Hoist with his own petard
 * Hold your horses
 * Holy cow (expression)
 * Houston, we have a problem
 * How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
 * Humble pie
 * I know it when I see it
 * Idiom
 * Idiot proof
 * If wishes were horses, beggars would ride
 * Illegitimi non carborundum
 * Indian giver
 * Is the glass half empty or half full?
 * Isaac Watts
 * It ain't over till the fat lady sings
 * It takes a village
 * Jack of all trades, master of none
 * John Bradford
 * Judgment of Solomon
 * Jumping from the frying pan into the fire
 * Justice delayed is justice denied
 * Kashmiri Proverbs
 * Keeping up with the Joneses
 * Kick the bucket
 * Kick the cat
 * Learning the hard way
 * Lion's share
 * Lions led by donkeys
 * List of proverbial phrases
 * Live and Let Live
 * Live by the sword, die by the sword
 * Loose lips sink ships
 * Lugbara proverbs
 * Mad as a March hare
 * Make a mountain out of a molehill
 * Man bites dog (journalism)
 * Man's best friend (phrase)
 * Many a true word is spoken in jest
 * Many happy returns (greeting)
 * Mexican standoff
 * Might makes right
 * Milking the bull
 * Mills of God
 * Mind your Ps and Qs
 * Monkey see, monkey do
 * Monkey's uncle
 * More Irish than the Irish themselves
 * Mum's the word
 * Murphy's law
 * My two cents
 * My way or the highway
 * Necessity is the mother of invention
 * Netherlandish Proverbs
 * Oldest profession (phrase)
 * Out of the blue (idiom)
 * Pain in the ass
 * Paremiography
 * Paremiology
 * Patience is a virtue
 * Peanut gallery
 * Pearls before swine
 * Perfect is the enemy of good
 * Phrase
 * Physician, heal thyself
 * Pig in a poke
 * Playing by ear
 * Pork barrel
 * Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
 * Proverb
 * Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
 * Rags to riches
 * Rain of animals
 * Red herring
 * Red sky at morning
 * Red-light district
 * Reinventing the wheel
 * Rest in peace
 * Rome wasn't built in a day
 * Russian proverbs
 * Sacred cow (idiom)
 * Sands of time (idiom)
 * Saying
 * School of Hard Knocks
 * Sea change (idiom)
 * Second fiddle
 * Silver bullet
 * Silver lining (idiom)
 * Silver spoon
 * Sitting on the fence
 * Skeleton in the closet (idiom)
 * Skin of my teeth
 * Slogan
 * Smoke and mirrors
 * So help me God
 * Speak of the devil
 * Square peg in a round hole
 * Standing on the shoulders of giants
 * Stiff upper lip
 * Still waters run deep
 * Stir crazy (condition)
 * Stop press
 * Straw that broke the camel's back
 * Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
 * Takes two to tango (idiom)
 * Taking the piss
 * Teaching grandmother to suck eggs
 * Tell It to the Marines
 * Tempest in a teapot
 * The best defense is a good offense
 * The blind leading the blind
 * The Boy Who Cried Wolf
 * The captain goes down with the ship
 * The Centipede's Dilemma
 * The devil is in the detail
 * The Disobedient Child
 * The dog ate my homework
 * The Dog in the Manger
 * The enemy of my enemy is my friend
 * The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
 * The lady doth protest too much, methinks
 * The living daylights (idiom)
 * The milkmaid and her pail
 * The Moon is made of green cheese
 * The pen is mightier than the sword
 * The pot calling the kettle black
 * The powers that be (phrase)
 * The quick and the dead (idiom)
 * The real McCoy
 * The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
 * The road to hell is paved with good intentions
 * The seven-year itch
 * The squeaky wheel gets the grease
 * The whole nine yards
 * There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
 * There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
 * Thirteenth stroke of the clock
 * Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
 * Three men make a tiger
 * Three wise monkeys
 * Throw under the bus
 * Tilting at windmills
 * Tinkerbell effect
 * Tip of the tongue
 * Toe the line
 * Tongue-in-cheek
 * Trip the light fantastic (phrase)
 * True meaning of Christmas
 * Trust in God and keep your powder dry
 * Turn in one's grave
 * Twiddly bits
 * Unintended consequences
 * Wagon fort
 * Waving a dead chicken (over it)
 * Weather lore
 * Wellerism
 * What's done is done
 * When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
 * When the going gets tough, the tough get going
 * White elephant
 * Wine, women and song
 * Wolf in sheep's clothing
 * You can't have your cake and eat it