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You never know how a cow catches a rabbit.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The rabbit gets fat on what the hare misses.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A Tyrone woman will never buy a rabbit without a head for fear it's a cat.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about commerce, fear, heads, woman

When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans, old, olderness

A rat is not born a rabbit.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian

A man who chases two rabbits catches none.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man

Who goes hunting without dogs, comes home without rabbits.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about home

Who wants to chase two rabbits, will get neither one nor the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about advice

A kitchen-dog is never a good rabbit-hunter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about hunters, good, good luck

Michael is quits; he lost a ducat and gained a rabbit.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A rabbit is over excited.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

A rabbit aims for the moon.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai about moon

A nibbling rabbit can also die of overfeeding.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan

Even rabbits insult an dead lion.

Proverbs and old sayings

The rabbit has a saying which goes: 'if you were born a male then you are given impossible tasks. '

Proverbs and old sayings about impossible

If the dog hadn't stopped to rest, he'd have caught the rabbit.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Za dvumya zaitsami pogonish'sya, ne odnogo ne poimaesh'. (If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. )

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Having vision as sharp as a kite and hearing as keen as a rabbit.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about vision

In the head of the pig there's something to take and something to leave; in the head of the rabbit there's nothing to leave and nothing to take.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, nothing