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Bush natural; more hair than wit.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The bush fowl saw the chicken being carved up and laughed. The chicken told the bush fowl to stop laughing. For the same hands now carving up the chicken would be used to carve up the bush fowl.

Proverbs and old sayings about being

The canary that dances along the bush path must have its drummer in the nearby bush.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You can take a monkey out of the bush, but you cant take the bush of a monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

A bush that doesn't rotate baskets must not grow mushrooms.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When the bush is on fire the chameleon learns to run first.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fire, fire brigade

He who ventures into the bush should close his ears to rattling.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

There's more than one way to beat the devil around the bush.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about devil, americans

Every bush is a man.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Good wine needs no bush.

Proverbs and old sayings British about wine, good, good luck

He will never get into the wood who starts at every bush.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is better to make conditions in the bush than in prison.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about prison

He who hunts two hares from one bush, is not likely to catch either.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about trap

You must knock a long while against an alder-bush before you get a swarm of bees out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about contentment

Underneath every bush you'll find a mud rabbit ready to bolt.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Don't cry holloa! till you're out of the bush.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about contentment

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He that feareth every bush, must never go a-birding.

Proverbs and old sayings English