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The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes straight to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings English about beauty

Two cats and one mouse, two women in one house, two dogs to one bone, will not agree long.

Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house

Impatience with your brother is in the flesh, it doesn't reach the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Chechen

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about soul, word

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 fishing, nothing, contentment