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Proverbs Beginning with T

246 entries beginning with the letter T.

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T — Proverbs and Sayings

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To err is human, to forgive is devine

To fiddle while Rome is burning.

To fight with one’s own shadow.

To find a mare’s nest.

To fish in troubled waters.

To flog a dead horse.

To get out of bed on the wrong side.

To go for wool and come home shorn.

To go through fire and water.

To have a finger in the pie.

To have rats in the attic.

To kick against the pricks.

To kill two birds with one stone.

To know all is to forgive all

To know on which side one’s bread is buttered.

To know what’s what.

To lay by for a rainy day.

To lead a cat and dog life

To live from hand to mouth.

To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen.

To look for a needle in a haystack.

To love somebody (or something) as the devil loves holy water.

To make both ends meet.

To make the air blue.

To make the cup run over.

To measure other people’s corn by your own bushel.

To pay one back in one’s own coin.

To plough the sand.

To pour water into a sieve.

To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.

To pull the devil by the tail.

to put a cat among pigeons

To put a spoke in somebody’s wheel.

To put off till Doomsday.

To put the cart before the horse.

To roll in money.

To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

To save one’s bacon.

To send owls to Athens

To set the wolf to keep the sheep.

To stick to somebody like a leech.

To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

To take the bull by the horns.

To teach the dog to bark.

To the pure all things are pure,

To throw dust in somebody’s eyes.

To throw straws against the wind.

To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.

To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.

To wash one’s dirty linen in public.

To wear one’s heart upon one’s sleeve.

To work with the left hand.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Too much knowledge makes the head bald.

Too much of a good thing is good for nothing.

Too much water drowned the miller .

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

True blue will never stain.

True coral needs no painter’s brush

Truth is stranger than fiction.

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