Search in folklore: whistle

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If you can't distinguish how to whistle a festival alarm from a warning alarm, then better not alarm and let s/he who knows the difference to do the alarming.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

When a girl whistles, the angels cry.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about angels, americans

The dog that minds not your whistle is good for nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about nothing, americans, good, good luck

You cannot drink and whistle at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about drinking, time, contentment

A sow may whistle, though it has an ill mouth for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

What the old ones sing, the young ones whistle.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about old, olderness

Who cannot sing, may whistle.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He who is sitting in the reeds, makes a whistle of his choice.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

One cannot drink and whistle at the same time.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about drinking, time

A joke is often the hole through which truth whistles.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about joke, truth

If you beat my drum, I will blow your whistle.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about contentment

It's no for nought that the gled whistles.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Pigs may whistle, but they hae an ill mouth for't.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

It isn't the whistle that pulls the train.

Proverbs and old sayings about trains