Search in folklore: nose

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The law has a nose of wax.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about law

He who looks only at heaven may easily break his nose on earth.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about earth

Half a nose is quickly blown.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Keep your nose to the grindstone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Keep your nose out of another's mess.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He must have clean fingers who would blow another's nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Making a long nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

To get the lid on the nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Looking down at one's nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He fell with his nose in the butter.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

All flowers are not fit for nosegays.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about flowers

He who hurts his nose, hurts his face.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about face

No matter if the child's born with a flat nose, as long as it breathes.

Proverbs and old sayings Ecuadorian about children

It's often a person's mouth broke their nose.

Proverbs and old sayings English about people

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverbs and old sayings English about children

A dog's nose and a maid's knee are always cold.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A mouse that wants to die goes to sniff the cat's nose.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

Laws have wax noses.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He falls on his back and breaks his nose.

Proverbs and old sayings French