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A drawing man clutches at straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about drawing, man

Rotten straw can harm a healthy horse.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

Would I know where I'd fall, I'd lay some straw there ahead of time.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fall, time

Every straw is a thorn at night.

Proverbs and old sayings about night

It is better to make money in the straw market than to lose it in the money market.

Proverbs and old sayings Serbian about money

It takes bales of hundredweight because a fire of straw lasts little.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fire, fire brigade

A sinking persons grabs a straw.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

You can't make bricks without straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

Some go to law, for the wagging of a straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law

On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

God will provide, but a good bundle of straw will not be amiss.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about god, good, good luck

Keep straw, its time will come.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish about time

Keep fire away from straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about fire, fire brigade

To pretend to satisfy one's desires with worldly goods is like using straw to put out a fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about fire, fire brigade

That is poor help that helps you from the feather-bed to the straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about help

What good is a palace if it's inhabited by owls. Better a straw hut inhabited by humans.

Proverbs and old sayings about people, good, good luck

If two neighbors want to fight, they will find a quarrel in a straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fight

Comfortable is he who doesn't have a donkey -- Doesn't know of its straw and barley.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

In a piranha infested river, monkeys drink water using a straw.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about drinking, water