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Fleas and a grining wife are waukrife bedfellows.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about wife

Fleas are not lobsters.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Money begets money, and fleas beget fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about money

A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan

The earth does not shake when the flea coughs.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about earth

An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

Proverbs and old sayings British about lie, old, olderness

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sleep, old, olderness

You can only know the fleas in the bed you have slept in.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about sleep, americans

He who lies down with dogs will rise with fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

The flea troubles him who has got it in his ear.

Proverbs and old sayings

Burning the quilt because of the fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

He that sleeps with a dog, should bear its fleas.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

A flea on top of a bald head.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads

Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads

It's not the fleas of the dog that make the cat meow.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A flea on the top of a bald head - it is only too apparent.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads

A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas -- a hunting dog does not feel them.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese