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When two elephants meet on a narrow bridge, they get nowhere until one of them backs down or lies down.

Proverbs and old sayings

It is sad when the elephant dies, but the whole tribe can feed on it.

Proverbs and old sayings

White elephant born in the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Ride an elephant to catch a grasshopper.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

Don't help the elephant carry its tusks.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about help

Don't help the elephant to carry his tusks.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about help

A dead elephant cannot be covered by a lotus leaf.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about salary

In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

If you want to destroy your enemy, give him an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about destruction, enemies

With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about heart

With a resolute heart, a mouse can lift an elephant. Spreading the news is also multiplying it.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about heart

Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing

The harm done by an elephant is like that done by a storm, or by the government.

Proverbs and old sayings

You must eat an elephant one bite at a time.

Proverbs and old sayings about time

An elephant can never fail to carry its tusks.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan

When two elephants fight the grass gets trampled.

Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about fight

It is no disgrace to move out of the way of the elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

The death throes of an elephant are not so annoying as a living flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about death

An elephant's tasks are never too heavy for it.

Proverbs and old sayings

An elephant's tusks are never too heavy for it.

Proverbs and old sayings