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Great boast. little roast.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

An onion shared with a friend tastes like roast lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

Big boast, small roast.

Proverbs and old sayings English

When the kitchenmaids are together the roast burns.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fall

A roast pigeon will not fly into one's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

There is no feast till a roast and no torment till a marriage.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about feast, marriage

Great smoke, little roast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke

Much smoke, and little roast.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke

A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Many a one leaves the roast who afterwards longs for the smoke of it.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about smoke

To roast fish on sky and to eat them.

Proverbs and old sayings about sky

Birds fly not into our mouths ready roasted.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

If the hill is on fire the grasshoppers are roasted.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about fire, fire brigade

Govern a country as you would roast a crocodile on a spit.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about country

It's easy to say May Allah roast the lion's mother, when the lion isn't there.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

You cannot roast corn with two eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about eyes

One who sees his friends roasted on a spit tells all he knows.

Proverbs and old sayings

He gives him roast meat and beats him with the spit.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

The tears of the roasting meat kindle the fire even more.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about tears, fire, fire brigade