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Nail by, with nail.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about habits

If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?

Proverbs and old sayings Rwandan about change, home, house, contentment

If you are building something and a nail breaks, should you stop building altogether, or should you change the nail?

Proverbs and old sayings West African about change, contentment

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost

Proverbs and old sayings British about man, old, olderness

It takes a heap of licks to drive a nail in the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings about dark, americans

It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings about dark, americans

If the nail decided to malinger, it would not pierce butter.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hammered down.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The nail supports the hoof, the hoof the horse, the horse the man, the man the world.

Proverbs and old sayings about world, man

Ye ca' hardest at the nail that drives fastest.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Drive the nail that will go.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

An ill-tempered woman is the devil's door-nail.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about devil, woman

Until the nail is hit, it doesn't believe in the hammer.

Proverbs and old sayings Dominican about faith

One nail drives in another.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

To hit the nail on the head.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about heads

He that would make a golden gate, must bring a nail to it daily.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

One nail drives out another.

Proverbs and old sayings English

For want of a nail a kingdom was lost.

Proverbs and old sayings English