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advices that:

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means that:

3: Necessity is the mother of invention.
means that:

4: Necessity knows no law.
used to say that:

5: Neck or nothing.
said to mean:

6: Need makes the old wife trot.
it means that:

7: Need teaches a plan.
used to mean that:

8: Needs must when the devil drives.
said to mean that:

9: Neither fish nor flesh.
used to say:

10: Neither here nor there.
said for :

11: Neither rhyme nor reason.
said for :

12: Never bid the devil morrow until you meet him.
means that:

13: Never cackle till your egg is laid.
advices:

14: Never choose your women or your linen by candlelight.
warning that:

15: Never do things by halves.
advices that:

16: Never fry a fish till it’s caught.
advices that:

17: Never is a long time.
saying suggesting that :

18: Never look a gift horse in the mouth
meaning that:

19: Never marry for money, but marry where money is.
advices :

20: Never mention rope in the house of a man who has been hanged
advices:

21: Never offer to teach fish to swim.
said to mean:

22: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
advices :

23: Never quit certainty for hope.
suggests that:

24: Never say die.
meaning:

25: Never say never
means that:

26: Never too much of a good thing.
said to mean that:

27: Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
meaning:

28: Never write what you dare not sign.
meaning:

29: New brooms sweep clean.
said when:

30: New lords, new laws.
said to mean that:

31: Night brings counsel
suggests that:

32: Nine tailors make a man
a saying:

33: No cross no crown
similar to:

34: No cure no pay.
expression meaning that :

35: No flying from fate.
suggests that:

36: No garden without its weeds.
means that:

37: No good deed goes unpunished
or else :

38: No great loss without some small gain.
suggests that:

39: No harm, no foul.
declares that:

40: No herb will cure love.
in other words:

41: No joy without alloy.
suggests that:

42: No living man all things can.
said to mean that:

43: No longer pipe, no longer dance.
suggests that:

44: No losers, no winners.
expresses that:

45: No man can serve two masters.
suggests that:

46: No man is a hero to his valet
implies that:

47: No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold.
used to say that:

48: No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile
declares that :

49: No names, no pack drill
suggests that:

50: No news is good news.
suggests that:

51: No pains, no gains.
used to say that:

52: No penny, no paternoster.
meaning that:

53: No smoke without fire
suggests that:

54: No song, no supper.
said to mean that:

55: No sweet without sweat.
said to mean that:

56: No wisdom like silence.
because:

57: None but the brave deserve the fair.
declares that:

58: None so blind as those who won’t see.
states that:

59: None so deaf as those that won’t hear.
means that:

60: North winds doth blow, we shall have snow
because:

61: Nothing comes of nothing
said to mean that:

62: Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it.
said to mean that:

63: Nothing for nothing
meaning:

64: Nothing is certain but death and taxes
suggests that:

65: Nothing is certain but the unforeseen
said to mean that:

66: Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
claims that:

67: Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught
with:

68: Nothing must be done hastily but killing of fleas.
said to mean that:

69: Nothing so bad but might have been worse
suggests that:

70: Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
used to say that:

71: Nothing so bold as a blind mare
meaning that:

72: Nothing succeeds like success.
suggests that:

73: Nothing venture, nothing gain.
said to mean that: