Search in folklore: brush

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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about old, olderness

Learn to handle a writing-brush and you'll never handle a begging-bowl.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about writing

A rod is better than a fox's brush.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Who can tie an oven brush, weave a sackcloth and turn over chitterlings is ready for marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about marriage

Short hair is soon brushed.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He drinks like a brushmaker.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

It's just a wisp in place of a brush.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about heads

You will find enough of brushna in every wood to burn it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Even when our sleeves brush together it is our karma.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

The bad calligrapher is choosy about his brushes.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about bad luck, bad

The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

Better walk unshackled in a green meadow, than be bound to a thorn-brush.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The fox goes through the corn and does not eat, but brushes it down with his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

One who enters a forest does not listen to the breaking of the twigs in the brush.

Proverbs and old sayings