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Sell not the bear's skin before you have caught him.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about commerce

When the lion's skin falls short, piece it out with that of the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Where the skin of the lion does not suffice, we must join that of the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Rat belly full, potato have skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Cuss-cuss noh bore hole a mi skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Feel like Gumbeh drum widout a goat-skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Jamaican

Beauty is skin deep.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about beauty

Count the skins of badgers which haven't been caught.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about haven

A tiger dies and leaves his skin; a man dies and leaves his name.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about name, man

A man's good name is as precious to him as its skin is to a tiger.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about name, good, good luck, man

Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about people

Don't estimate the value of a badger skin before catching the badger.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about value

He shaves close to the skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

A biting cur wears a torn skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Eels become accustomed to skinning.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He won't give us so much as the skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

More blind than the cast-off skin of a serpent.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about blind

More naked than the cast-off skin of a serpent.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

The skin of a lion covering some mongrel beast.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin