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PROVERBS PREVIOUS NEXT expression to encourage : 2: You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make it drink. said to mean that: 3: You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy. means that: 4: You can't put wine in old bottles. suggests that: 5: You can't shout fire in a crowded theater a metaphor: 6: You can't tell a book by its cover. suggests that: 7: You can’t get a quart into a pint pot, said to mean that: 8: You can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, used to say that: 9: You can’t shift an old tree without it dying, signifies that: 10: You cannot catch old birds with chaff. means that: 11: You cannot eat your cake and have it. means that: 12: You cannot get blood from a stone. meaning that: 13: You cannot judge a tree by its bark. means that: 14: You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear expresses that: 15: You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. suggests that: 16: You cannot make bricks without straw. means that: 17: You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. suggests that: 18: You cannot serve God and Mammon states that: 19: You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. used to say that: 20: You cannot wash charcoal white. means that: 21: You do not fatten a pig by weighing it meaning: 22: You don't get something for nothing. meaning that: 23: You must eat a peck of dirt before you die. suggests that: 24: You never know what you can do untill you try. said for : 25: You pays your money and you takes your chances used to say that: |
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