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If you would catch a fox you must hunt with geese.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the goose trusts the fox then woe to her neck.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

When the fox preaches to the goose her neck is in danger.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about danger

When the fox licks his paw let the farmer look after his geese.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Own kin are the worst friends, said the fox, when he saw the foxy dogs after him.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Peter, I am taking a ride, said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is not for my own sake, said the fox, that I say there is a good goose-green in the wood.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about good, good luck

If the lion's skin cannot, the fox's shall.

Proverbs and old sayings Romanian

Old foxes are hard to catch.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

An old fox doesn't go twice into the trap.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

The fox may lose his hair, but not his cunning.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The fox never fares better than when he's bann'd.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The grapes are sour, said the fox, when he could not get at them.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Good day to you all! said the fox, when he got into the goose-pen.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about day, good, good luck

A fox smells its own lair first.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A fox smells its own stink first.

Proverbs and old sayings English

It is a blind goose that comes to the fox's sermon.

Proverbs and old sayings English about blind

The brains of a fox will be of little service if you play with the paw of a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Sour said the fox about rowan berries.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish