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Proverbs starting with W

1: Wait for the cat to jump.
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2: Walls have ears.
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3: Wash your dirty linen at home.
states that:

4: Waste not, want not.
advices that:

5: Watched pot never boils.
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6: We know not what is good until we have lost it.
used to mean that:

7: We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
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8: We never miss the water till the well runs dry.
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9: We shall see what we shall see.
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10: We soon believe what we desire.
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11: Wealth is nothing without health.
similar:

12: Wear out one's welcome
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13: Well begun is half done.
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14: What can’t be cured, must be endured.
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15: What is bread in the bone will come out in the flesh.
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16: What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
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17: What is done by night, appears by day.
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18: What is done cannot be undone.
said to mean that:

19: What is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly.
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20: What is lost is lost
expresses that :

21: What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
declares that:

22: What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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23: What must be, must be.
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24: What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
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25: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
said to mean that:

26: What we do willingly is easy.
bebcause :

27: When angry, count a hundred.
advices that:

28: When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
advices that:

29: When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
describes :

30: When the cat’s away the mice will play
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31: Where bees are, there is honey.
indicates that:

32: Where there is s a will there is a way.
declares that :

33: Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.
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34: Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap
supposes that :

35: Wish is father to the thought.
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36: Works like a cat in cockle-shells
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37: Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow
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38: Worship the ground somebody walks on
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