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No one knows what the dinner was after the plates have been washed.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

A friend's dinner is soon dressed.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

When flatters meet, the devil goes to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings English about devil

When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings English about devil

After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Pride is no substitute for a dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about proudness

A short mass and a long dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better a good dinner than a fine coat.

Proverbs and old sayings French about good, good luck

He sups ill who eats up all at dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Naught must disturb a man of worth at dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings French about man

To go as fast as a friar that is invited to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings French about fasting

A little dinner, long expected and cold, is by no means given, but dearly sold.

Proverbs and old sayings French

After dinner stand a while, or walk nearly half a mile.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Eat beans for lunch and have no friends at the dinner table.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Nobody is forced to attend the dinner given after killing a pig.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A person who happens by a neighbor's house at dinner time, and is invited to join the meal, does not swallow such large morsels as to break the string of pearls around his neck.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about people, home, house, time

Every dog knows his dinnertime.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Going to bed without dinner is better than waking up in debt.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

After dinner a Kuru kills a man or kidnaps a woman.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman, man