When a plate is covered, its contents are hidden.
Proverbs and old sayings
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A pit of the tongue cannot be covered up by the hand.
Proverbs and old sayings
The area covered by your life is not as important as what you can build on it.
Proverbs and old sayings about life, contentment
Marriage is a covered dish.
Proverbs and old sayings Swiss about marriage
A dead elephant cannot be covered by a lotus leaf.
Proverbs and old sayings Thai about salary
Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.
Proverbs and old sayings about earth, wealth, money, man
He who is covered with other people's clothes is naked.
Proverbs and old sayings Tunisian about clothes, people
Who steals the minaret will have a cover ready.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
If your part of the battlefield is covered with thorns, you do not leave your position and go to stand where the ground is good.
Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck, contentment
The earth will cover the doctor's mistakes.
Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about earth
If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.
Proverbs and old sayings about secret, magic, americans, contentment
If you want to grow a long tooth you must have enough lips to cover it.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
He that fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about earth, heads, nothing
When a lion runs and looks back, its not that he is afraid, rather he is trying to see the distance he has covered.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
It is not the clothes that count, but the things the clothes cover.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about clothes, things, americans
A mother-in-law may be good, but she is better when mother earth covers her up.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother, earth, law, good, good luck
Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.
Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese
Every one stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
When the fields are flooded you'll have hunger, when they're snow covered there'll be plenty to eat.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about hunger, contentment
