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Time and straw make medlars ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about time

A cat with a straw tail keeps away from fire.

Proverbs and old sayings English about fire, fire brigade

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Other land blueberry; own land strawberry.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

If a man knew where he would fall, he would spread straw there first.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about fall, man

With time and straw medlars ripen.

Proverbs and old sayings French about time

A drowning man will catch at a straw.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings French about woman, man

A lord of straw devours a vassal of steel.

Proverbs and old sayings French

'Tis the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Proverbs and old sayings French

What we want in hay we make up in straw.

Proverbs and old sayings German

An unlucky man falls on straw, but splits his nose from a hidden stone.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

A drowning man catches even at a stalk of straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about man

He considers it as straw of, the landowner Csaky.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He does not put crosswise even one stalk of straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He wont pick strawberries into the basket on somebody else.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

You do not needed a basket to pick well-knows strawberries.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A hungry ass eats any straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A man of straw needs a woman of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about woman, man

He would break his neck against a straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian