... staff to beat a dog or to find a stone to throw at a dog. ( Gaal, 917 ... ... strive for a bone, and the third runs away with it. ( Gaal, 922. ) ... ... om en brud. – Uglen og kragen, to som elsker een; to hunde om et been kunne ei forliges. ...
... Let not your tongue cut your throat. – The tongue talks at the head's cost. ( ... ... Engl. : Who has not a good tongue, ought to have good hands. ( Bohn II, 137. ) It. ... ... Mund sind nicht gesund. Dän. : Man skol ey have to tunger i een mund. ( ...
... Dän. : Skulde man for en nats lyst have saa mange dages ulyst. ( Prov. dan., 405. ) ... ... in eine Grube fallen. Engl. : He that runs in the night, stumbles. ( Bohn II, 15. ) ...
... fischen. Engl. : No fishing to fishing in the sea. ( Bohn II, 93. ... ... Newcastle. ( Bohn II, 154. ) – To cast water into the Thames. ( Bohn II, ... ... Engl. : In the deepest water is the best fishing. ( Bohn II, 8. ...