Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
He lays his eggs beside his nest.
He left for Foldvar to sell boards.
He left the party without having Hommos.
He left us and we rejoiced; then an even
more unbearable person came.
He lied like an eyewitness.
He lies as if he read from a book.
He lies like a toothdrawer.
He likes it, as a goat likes the knife, that kills
him.
He likes nae beef that grows on my banes.
He lived a colonel but died a corpse.
He lives in the land of promise.
He lives like Marci in Heves.
He lives long who lives well.
He looks as if the wood were fu' o' thieves.
He looks for a needle in a bundle of hay.
He looks for his ass and sits on its back.
He looks one way and rows another.
He lords it like an eel in a tub.
He loses his market who has nothing to sell.
He loses his thanks who promises and
delays.
He loses least in a quarrel who keeps his
tongue in cheek.
He lost an already cut bundle of grass.
He loves me as the devil loves holy water.
He loves me for little that hates me for
nought.
He loves well who does not forget.
He loves well who never forgets.
He made a moon-light flitting.
He made a pit and digged it, and has fallen
into the ditch which he made.
He made me mad to see him shine so brisk
and smell so sweet.
He makes a dome out of a grain. (He
worries about a small problem as if it is a
big one.)
He makes a hundred knives, none of which
has a handle.
He makes a lion of a mouse.
He makes an elephant out of a mosquito.
He makes his home where the living is best.
He makes idle boasting.
He makes someone else get he chestnut
from the fire.
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He makes the bed soft, yet it's hard to sleep
on.
He makes the hare spring out of the bush.
He makes the water muddy to fish.
He maun be soon up that cheats the tod.
He may die of wind but he'll never die of
wisdom.
He may eat it or not, he wont get anything
else.
He may find fault that canna mend.
He may go to the salt-office.
He may laugh that wins a'.
He may lie boldly who comes from afar.
He may lie safely who comes from afar.
He may say that he loves you, wait and see
what he does for you.
He may swim boldly who is held up by the
chin.
He may swim well that has his head hadden
up.
He may weel soom wha has his head
hauden up.
He means well, but has a bad way of
showing it.
He measures others by his own standard.
He measures others with his own yard.
He mixes Ramadan with Sha'ban. Meaning:
He confuses the issue.
He moistens the lips, but leaves the palate
dry.
He mon have leave to speak that cannot had
his tongue.
He moves all the stones, to achieve
something.
He must be a clever host that would take the
devil into his hostelry.
He must be ill-favoured who scares the
devil.
He must be pure who would blame another.
He must cry aloud who would scare the
devil.
He must gape wide who would gape
against an oven.
He must have a long spoon who sups with
the devil.