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God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about judges, help, god

A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Wolves are often hidden under sheep's clothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The sheep that bleat the most give the least milk.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Many a sheep goes out woolly and comes home shorn.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about home

One would rather be bitten by wolves than by sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

He that wants to hang a dog, says that it bites the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is a bad sheep that is too lazy to carry its own fleece.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad

The cow is milked, not the ox; the sheep is shorn, not the horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A wolf in sheep's clothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Coupled sheep drown one another.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Shear the sheep but don't flay them.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

One scabby sheep infects the whole flock.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

They are fools whose sheep run away twice.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The scabbier the sheep the harder it bleats.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

On a small pretence the wolf devours the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch