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Pull out the beak and the tail gets stuck, pull out the tail and the beak gets stuck.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

The elephant that is stuck in the mud will tear down the tree with it.

Proverbs and old sayings Cambodian

He who is anxious to secure the best tends to get stuck with the worst of the rest.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

A head stuck on a pike no longer conspires.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity will not attain great prosperity.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about prosperity, people

Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and nothing gets stuck in your throat, and then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck in your throat.

Proverbs and old sayings about nothing

It has stuck fast by one of the front legs.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about fasting

The crab has stuck fast between the stones at the entrance of its hole.

Proverbs and old sayings Zulu about fasting

When a musician hath forgotten his note, He makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat.

Proverbs and old sayings