Proverbs with Keyword: "CAT"

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• C127 As a CAT plays with a mouse
• C128 As a CAT watches a mouse
• C129 As melancholy as a gibbed CAT
• C130 As nimble as (He signifies no more than) a blind CAT in a barn
• C131 As nimble as a CAT on a hot bakestone
• C132 A baited CAT may grow as fierce as a lion
• C133 Before the CAT can lick her ear
• C134 A blate¹ CAT makes a proud mouse
• C135 CAT (Kit) after kind
• C136 CAT after kind, good mouse hunt
• C137 The CAT has eaten her count
• C138 The CAT is hungry when a crust contents her
• C139 The CAT is in the cream pot
• C140 The CAT knows whose lips (beard) she licks well enough
• C141 A CAT may look on a king
• C142 The CAT sees not the mouse ever
• C143 The CAT, the rat, and Lovel, our dog, rule all England under a hog
• C144 The CAT would eat fish but she will not wet her feet
• C145 A gloved CAT can catch no mice
• C146 He bides as fast as a CAT bound with a saucer
• C147 He can hold the CAT to the sun
• C148 He hoped well that got the CAT with two tails
• C149 He is sure of a CAT that has her skin
• C150 He loves me as a CAT does mustard
• C151 How (What) can the CAT help it if the maid be a fool?
• C152 Let the CAT wink and let the mouse run
• C153 Like a CAT, he'll still fall upon his legs
• C154 Like a CAT, to have nine lives
• C155 The liquorish¹ CAT has (gets) many a rap
• C156 The more you rub a CAT on the rump the higher she sets up her tail
• C157 A muffled (muzzled, cuffed) CAT was never good mouser (hunter)
• C158 My CAT has no such ears
• C159 Never was CAT or dog drowned that could but see the shore
• C160 An old CAT laps as much milk as (more milk than) a young
• C161 An old CAT sports not with her prey
• C162 Put an old CAT to an old rat
• C163 A scalded CAT (dog) fears cold water
• C164 Send not a CAT for lard
• C165 She is like a CAT, she will play with her own tail
• C166 Such a CAT cannot be caught without mittens
• C167 That CAT is out of kind that sweet milk (cream) will not lap (lick, steal)
• C168 That that comes of a CAT will catch mice
• C169 Though the CAT winks awhile yet sure she is not blind
• C170 To buy a CAT in a poke
• C171 To know a CAT from a cony (cowlstaff)
• C172 To turn the CAT in the pan
• C173 To whip the CAT
• C174 Well might (It was not for nought that) the CAT wink (winked) when both her eyes were out
• C175 When the CAT's away the mice will play
• C176 When the CAT winks little wots the mouse what the cat thinks
• C177 You shall have what the CAT left on the malt heap
• C178 You will be like the singed CAT then, better than you are likely¹
• C179 Long and small, like a CAT's elbow
• C180 To have CAT's eyes
• C181 CATS eat what hussies spare (what the goodwife spares)
• C182 It rains CATS and dogs
• C183 Keep no more CATS than will catch mice
• C184 They agree like CATS and dogs
• C185 They agree like two CATS in a gutter
• C186 Two CATS and a mouse, two wives in one house, two dogs and a bone never agree in one