Search in folklore: lemon

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Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

Proverbs and old sayings British about life, old, olderness

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about life, americans

Sell beets/apples as lemons.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about commerce

Fifty lemons are a load for one person, but for fifty persons they are perfume.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about people, perfume

A woman is like a lemon; you squeeze her and throw her away.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about woman

If you have a lemon, make lemonade out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

If life gives you a lemon, make a caipirinha out of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about life

If you stab out the eye of thy neighbor cut off two finger and dip them in honey. Cook them in lemon curd and present them to his family in a pigeon pie. If they dine on a full moon his eye will sprout again from it's socket.

Proverbs and old sayings Gypsy about present, gypsies, family, moon

Invite your son-in-law to a fowl, and he will take away the lemon.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law