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Give him a foot and he'll take four.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better the foot slip than the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Who sows thorns let him not walk bare-foot.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Better a slip of the foot than of the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Misfortunes come on horseback and depart on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings French

He that will bare-foot go must not plant a garden of thistle.

Proverbs and old sayings French about garden

It is easy to go on foot if you are holding your horse by the rein.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

With one foot in the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings German

One shoe will not fit every foot.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Better badly mounted than proud on foot.

Proverbs and old sayings German about proudness

He who has one foot in a brothel, has the other in a hospital.

Proverbs and old sayings German

One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him.

Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce

He danced bound hand and foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

He has already one foot in the grave.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

When a camel is at the foot of a mountain only then judge his height.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about judges

Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about youth, mind

It was not on one foot that st. patrick came to ireland.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

There is never an old brogue but there is a foot to fit it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about old, olderness

A stirring foot always gets something, even if it's only a thorn.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish