No hang you clothes all pon one nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican about clothes, contentment
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The nail that sticks out is hammered down.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese
The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit.
Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads
You have hit the nail on the head.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about heads, contentment
Only your nail scratches your skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese
You cannot hang everything on one nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment
A guest sticks a nail in the wall even if he stays but one night.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about night
A guest hammers a nail in the wall even if he stays only one night.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about night
For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian
The horseshoe that clatters wants a nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about weather
One stroke on the nail and a hundred on the horseshoe.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish
The nail that sticks out is hammered down. [More about the need for conformity than about tools, although conformity is a tool of society. ]
Proverbs and old sayings about tools, society, need
To a man who only has a hammer in his tool kit, every problem looks like a nail.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about tools, man
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Proverbs and old sayings English about tools
Darg-flea tell him pickeny him mustn't say him dead till him ketch pon finger nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican
A hammer breaks glass, but also forms steel. Everything cannot be hung on one nail.
Proverbs and old sayings Russian
