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

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

One beats the bush and another catches the birds.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A spooked crow is afraid of a bush.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Either chest in crosses, or a head in bushes.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about heads

The fault was committed in the bush, but it is now talked about on the highway.

Proverbs and old sayings

He'll wag as the bush wags.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Better a wee bush than nae beild.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

A wee bush is better than nae bield.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

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

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Ane beats the bush, and anither grips the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The bushes grow in order to cover defects.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about defects, order

If you want to dismantle a hedge, remove one thorn bush at a time.

Proverbs and old sayings about time

One man beats the bush, another catcheth the bird.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

He who fears every bush, comes late to the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

A bird in the hand is worth more than ten in the bush.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

It is better to walk around a bush than fight with a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about fight

Measure the corn of others with your own bushel.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about measure