Search in folklore: smell

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He who has bad breath cannot smell it.

Proverbs and old sayings about bad luck, bad

That smells bad, said the cat about meat that it cannot reach.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about bad luck, bad

Every cask smells of the wine it contains.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wine

To change one's habits has a smell of death.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about habits, change, death

The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about wine

He made me mad To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Fresh fish and new-come guests smell in three days.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about day

Take time to smell the roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about time

A hungry man smells meat far.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

You hae been smelling the bung.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

The rose that's not considered, has been smelled or picked or defoliated.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian

It is the snake that smells the rat.

Proverbs and old sayings

One who enters a hut does not smell the termites roasting in the boiler.

Proverbs and old sayings

The cask smells of the wine it contains.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about wine

A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A man without honor smells worse than a corpse.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

One's foul smelling does not sicken one self but merely disguts one.

Proverbs and old sayings about self-control

Self-praise smells bad.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about self-control, praise, bad luck, bad

Fish and guests smell in three days.

Proverbs and old sayings about day

They made the garlic a bride, its smell did not come out for forty days.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about day