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Proverbs-1426-To-1450

# Proverbs
1426 To put a spoke in somebody's wheel.
1427 To put off till Doomsday.
1428 To rob one's belly to cover one's back.
1429 To roll in money.
1430 To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
1431 To save one's bacon.
1432 To send (carry) owls to Athens�.
1433 To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
1434 To stick to somebody like a leech.
1435 To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
1436 To take counsel of one's pillow.
1437 To take the bull by the horns.
1438 To teach the dog to bark.
1439 To tell tales out of school.
1440 To the good listener, half a word is enough. -Spanish Proverb
1441 To throw a stone in one's own garden.
1442 To throw dust in somebody's eyes.
1443 To throw straws against the wind.
1444 To treat somebody with a dose of his own medicine.
1445 To understand your parents' love, bear your own children. -Chinese Proverb
1446 To use a steam-hammer to crack nuts.
1447 To want to forget something is to remember it. -French Proverb
1448 To wash one's dirty linen in public.
1449 To wear one's heart upon one's sleeve.
1450 To weep over an onion.
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