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A bellyful is one of meat, drink, or sorrow.

Proverbs and old sayings English about sadness, drinking

Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.

Proverbs and old sayings English about enemies

Who looks for meat will find a bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

He who shares the meat is always left with the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

A friend's meat is soon ready.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The best soup is made of old meat.

Proverbs and old sayings French about old, olderness

Quick at meat, quick at work.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work

What's one man's meat's another man's poison.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man

Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but never at work get into a heat.

Proverbs and old sayings German about work

Better to eat beans in peace than to eat meat in distress.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about peace

After meat, mustard.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Cheap meat yields dilute soup.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A person who arrives at a feast when the cooked meat is being pulled out of the pot does not know what was endured by others to catch and cook it.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about feast, being, people

As honest as a cat when the meat is out of reach.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

Sweet meat requires sour sauce.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

No meat ever remains in the shambles however bad it may be.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about bad luck, bad

God sends us the meat, but it is the Devil who sends us cooks.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil, god

Two smells of cooking meat break the hyena's legs.

Proverbs and old sayings

God sends meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about devil, god