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If you buy cheap meat, you'll smell what you have saved when it boils.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce

When they gave the donkey flowers to smell, he ate them.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about flowers

Who is brave enough to tell the lion that his breath smells?

Proverbs and old sayings Berber

Ye hae been smelling the bung.

Proverbs and old sayings British

If you beat spice it will smell the sweeter.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A heart that is rotten -- breath that smells.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heart

The flowers in your garden don't smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about flowers, garden

Humid weather, smelly air.

Proverbs and old sayings about air, weather

Stop and smell the roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Fish and guests smell at three days old.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about day, old, olderness

If you will stir up the mire, you must bear the smell.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Gentle doctors cause smelly wounds.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A fox smells its own lair first.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A fox smells its own stink first.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A pig never smells its own stink.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The mortar always smells of garlic.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The cask always smells of the herring.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Whoever rubs himself with garlic will not smell of cloves.

Proverbs and old sayings French

When an elephant is dead, a hare will not smell.

Proverbs and old sayings

No one loathes the smell of himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek