Search in folklore: scratching

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Scratching an itch from outside the boot.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Scratching and borrowing do well enough, but not for long.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Eating and scratching want but a beginning.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about beginning

Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing.

Proverbs and old sayings British

When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about consolation

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Who is born a chicken loves scratching.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Too much scratching smarts, too much talking harms.

Proverbs and old sayings French about talking

By biting and scratching cats and dogs come together.

Proverbs and old sayings French

O foolish world, why are you scratching around in the dark?

Proverbs and old sayings German about dark, world

Grief itches but scratching it makes it worse.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about sadness

I am scratching myself where I am itching.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian

For a rash to heal, you must stop scratching it.

Proverbs and old sayings

There is no partridge which does not know its own way of scratching.

Proverbs and old sayings

What gives the child the itch has already given him the fingernails for scratching it.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about children