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That is the lion's tail, do not play with it.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better to be an ant's head than a lion's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about heads

By slitting the ears and cutting the tail, a dog is still a dog, not a horse, not an ass.

Proverbs and old sayings

De higher de monkey climb, de more he does show he tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

My dog slaps you with his tail and bites you with his teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Basques about contentment

Who has a woman has an eel by the tail.

Proverbs and old sayings British about woman

An eel by his tail, an Irishman at his word.

Proverbs and old sayings British about word

They said to the fox, the fox said to its tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian

If you do not step on the dog's tail, he will not bite you.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about contentment

A tiger's head and a snake's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads

Leave a bit of the tail to whisk off flies.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If a rat wants to die it bites a cat's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about death

Don't be a tiger's head with a snake's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads

The cat got an order and delegated it to her tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about order

A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about destruction

Careless rat chewing on a cat's tail: beware lightning!

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about heads

Don't let your tongue or your paintbrush wag your tail when they are making up an inventory.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Don't cut off the monkey's tail before it is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Congolese

Better the head of a village than the tail of a town.

Proverbs and old sayings about city, heads