Never give the skin when you can pay with the wool.
Proverbs and old sayings German
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Where the lion's skin falls short, borrow of the fox.
Proverbs and old sayings German
Don't sell the bear-skin before you have killed the bear.
Proverbs and old sayings German about commerce
Rain wets a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about rain
Rain beats on a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about rain
A man with a skinny wife is a deceitful man.
Proverbs and old sayings Greek about wife, man
Two skinny people don't fry.
Proverbs and old sayings Hatian about people
An elephant, no matter how skinny, is valuable.
Proverbs and old sayings
Nobody can slip out of his own skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Every one carries his own skin to the market.
Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian
Often a troll-woman is under fair skin, and virtue under dark hair.
Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic about dark, virtue, woman
Bump-thump-scratch. It's all on a big man's skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about man
The young shed many skins.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish
Do it as if there was fire in your skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about fire, fire brigade
Beauty is only skin deep, ugliness goes to the bone.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about ugliness, beauty
Youth sheds many a skin. The steed does not retain its speed forever.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about speed, youth
Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about speed, youth
He would skin a flint.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
With the skin of the dog its bite is cured.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian
Let us first catch the bear and then sell its skin.
Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce
