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When the hand is clean, It needs no screen.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

No stopping the force of a going wheel by hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about force, police

The tree remains, but not so the hand that put it.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When your hand is in the dog's mouth, withdraw it gently.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about pray, heart

Cap in hand never did any harm.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

The right hand is slave to the left.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about rightness

Water after does not quench a fire at hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about fire, fire brigade, water

Who seeks a quarrel will find it near at hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Between the hand and the mouth the soup is spilt.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Of judgment every one has a stock on hand for sale.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about judgment

Tie me hand and foot and throw me among my own people.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about people

Stones or bread, one must have something in hand for the dogs.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

One bird in hand is better far Than two that in the bushes are.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

You shake man's hand, you no shake his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about heart, contentment, man

You shake a man's hand, you don't shake his heart.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about heart, contentment, man

When the hand is put in, the foot follows.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese

Saving the mustard seeds that are in your hand might cause you to miss out on getting a watermelon.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.

Proverbs and old sayings about devil