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From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Near is my coat, but nearer is my shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

If someone sweats for you, you change his shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about change

The skin fits closer than the shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

A thousand curses never tore a shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings

My skin is closer to me than my shirt is.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques

Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.

Proverbs and old sayings British

Death is closer than the shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about death

An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about life, old, olderness

A custom wears a shirt of iron.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech

You cannot take a shirt from a naked man.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

The shirt is nearer to the body than the coat.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about body

My shirt is nearer than my cloak.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

My shirt is closer to me than my cloak.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

The skin is nearer than the shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Nothing so bold as a miller's shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings French about nothing

Let not your shirt know your way of thinking.

Proverbs and old sayings French about thinking

Nothing so bold as a miller's shirt (because it takes a thief by the throat every morning).

Proverbs and old sayings French about thieves, nothing

Nothing bolder than the miller's shirt, that every morning collars a thief.

Proverbs and old sayings German about thieves, nothing

Do not trust even your own shirt.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian