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When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A wolf hankers after sheep even at his last gasp.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

He howls with the wolves, and bleats with the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When flies swarm in March, sheep come to their death.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death

He that makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

First a turnip, then a sheep; next a cow, and then the gallows.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about sleep

Does sheep manure turn to caramel?

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian

A leap year is never a good sheep year.

Proverbs and old sayings English about good, good luck

Old sheep shouldn't dress in lamb's fashion.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fashion, old, olderness

If one sheep leaps over the ditch all the rest will follow.

Proverbs and old sayings English

It is a sheep who lets himself sheared.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

Who shears the sheep's head will live a couple of days, who shears its tail will live a hundred years.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about couple, day, heads

A bleating sheep loses a bite.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

O, sheep if I do not eat you, you will eat me, said the hyena.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

A little sheep always seems young.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Counted sheep are eaten by the wolf.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better lose the wool than the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings French