Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
It has been blowing hard--the dirt has been
blown into high places.
It has caused injury and will do so again.
It has neither an ear, nor a tail.
It has neither rhyme nor reason.
It has never been so, that it wouldn't have
been anyhow.
It has stuck fast by one of the front legs.
It has to be fixed one way or another.
It hasn't doesn't necessarily mean "it won't."
It hit a nail into his head.
It hits like a grip on a pig.
It ill becomes a carpenter to be heavy-
handed, a smith to be shake-handed, or a
physician to be tenderhearted.
It is a bad action that success cannot justify.
It is a bad bargain, where both are losers.
It is a bad game where nobody wins.
It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the
head.
It is a bad hen can't scrape for herself.
It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
It is a bad hen that eats at your house and
lays at another's.
It is a bad hen that lays her eggs away from
the farm.
It is a bad hen that lays in neighbour's
houses.
It is a bad horse that does not earn his
fodder.
It is a bad idea to take a thorn out of
someone else's foot and put it into your
own.
It is a bad plowman that quarrels with his
ox.
It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its
own fleece.
It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to
be known for one.
It is a bad thing to be poor, and seem poor.
It is a bad well into which one must put
water.
It is a bad well that need water to be carried
to it.
It is a bad well that you have to fill with
water.
It is a bad workman that has a bad saw.
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It is a bare Moor that he goes over, and gets
not a Cow.
It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard
off.
It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief.
It is a blessing in disguise.
It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in the
cat's ear.
It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's
ear.
It is a cart if it goes well, otherwise it is but
timber.
It is a cart if it travels well, else it is but
timber.
It is a cob stripped of maize in an ashpit.
It is a dangerous fire that begins in the bed
straw.
It is a disgrace to be praised by those who
deserve no praise.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the
deceiver.
It is a fair feild where all are dung down.
It is a fairy brewing that is not good in the
newing.
It is a fairy collop that is tane off a Capon.
It is a fine thing to command, though it be
only a herd of cattle.
It is a fine thing to die for one's fatherland,
but a still finer thing to live for it.
It is a fool whose own tomatoes are sold to
him.
It is a foolish fly that is buried with a corpse.
It is a foul bird that fills his own nest.
It is a fraud to connive at a fraud.
It is a good answer which knows when to
stop.
It is a good day to die.
It is a good file that cuts iron without
making a noise.
It is a good Goose that drops ay.
It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a
good wife that never grumbles.
It is a good horse that never stumbles.
It is a good tongue that says nae ill.