The nail that sticks out gets pounded.
Proverbs and old sayings English
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Proverbs and old sayings English about contentment
It's better to be a hammer than a nail.
Proverbs and old sayings French
He who wishes to make a golden door drives a nail into it every day.
Proverbs and old sayings French about day
Drive not a second nail till the first be clinched.
Proverbs and old sayings German
He who buys a house gets many a plank and nail for nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house, nothing
One man knocks in the nail, and another hangs his hat on it.
Proverbs and old sayings German about man
He who would make a golden door must add a nail to it daily.
Proverbs and old sayings German
There is no nail varnish that can make old hands look younger.
Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness
He who heeds not the lost shoe-nail, will soon lose the horse.
Proverbs and old sayings German
A nail secures the horse-shoe, the shoe the horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and the castle the whole land.
Proverbs and old sayings German about man
Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin.
Proverbs and old sayings about time
It hit a nail into his head.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about heads
He hits the nail on the head.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about heads
The nail sticks out of the sack.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Work is burning down to his nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about work
A new sieve is on a nail, then it gets under the bed.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
He who loves drives a nail into his heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about heart
Leave no nail unclenched.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
He takes out a nail and puts in a pin.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
