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You cackle in our place but you lay your eggs at someone else's place.

Proverbs and old sayings Georgian

De hen dat cackle lay de egg.

Proverbs and old sayings

The first hen that cackles is the one that laid the egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

The goose that has a good gander cackles loudly.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

The goose that has lost its head no longer cackles.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about heads

The hen is ill off when the egg teaches her how to cackle.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

It is not the hen which cackles most that lays most eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He who cackled is the guilty party.

Proverbs and old sayings

The hen ought not to cackle in presence of the cock.

Proverbs and old sayings French

When the hen had laid an egg she cackles.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A hen that cackles much lays only a few eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

It is a no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another's.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about home, house, good, good luck

You cackle often, but never lay an egg.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The hen that cackles in the evening lays no eggs in the morning.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

He who spends a night with a chicken will cackle in the morning.

Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about night