Proverbs with Keyword: "DEVIL"

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• D217 As black as the DEVIL
• D218 As false as the DEVIL
• D219 As innocent as a DEVIL of two years old
• D220 As the DEVIL loves holy water
• D221 As the DEVIL mended his dame's leg
• D222 Between the DEVIL and the deep sea (Dead Sea)
• D223 Bring you the DEVIL and I'll bring out his dam
• D224 The DEVIL always leaves a stink behind him
• D225 The DEVIL and his dam
• D226 The DEVIL and John of Cumber
• D227 The DEVIL and the dean begin with a letter; when the devil has the dean the kirk will be the better
• D228 The DEVIL and the whirlwind go with him
• D229 The DEVIL brought the bashful man to the court
• D230 The DEVIL can cite Scripture for his purpose
• D231 The DEVIL can transform himself into an angel of light
• D232 The DEVIL dances in a woman's placket
• D233 The DEVIL dances in an empty pocket
• D234 The DEVIL divides the world between atheism and superstition
• D235 The DEVIL gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts
• D236 The DEVIL go with thee down the lane
• D237 The DEVIL has cast a bone to set strife
• D238 The DEVIL has owed me a cake of a long time and now has paid me a loaf
• D239 The DEVIL himself can't understand it
• D240 The DEVIL is a busy bishop in his own diocese
• D241 The DEVIL is a knave
• D242 The DEVIL is an ass
• D243 The DEVIL is at home
• D244 The DEVIL is dead
• D245 The DEVIL is ever kind to his own
• D246 The DEVIL is full of knowledge (is nought) because he is old
• D247 The DEVIL is God's ape
• D248 The DEVIL is good to some
• D249 The DEVIL is good when he is pleased
• D250 The DEVIL is in the dice
• D251 The DEVIL is in the straw
• D252 The DEVIL is known by his claws (cloven feet, horns)
• D253 The DEVIL is not always at a poor man's door
• D254 The DEVIL is not always at one door
• D255 The DEVIL is not so black as he is painted
• D256 The DEVIL lurks behind the cross
• D257 The DEVIL made souters¹ shipmen, that can neither steer nor row
• D258 The DEVIL makes his Christmas pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers
• D259 The DEVIL never assails a man except he find him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God
• D260 The DEVIL on Dun's¹ back
• D261 The DEVIL owed him a shame and now he has paid it
• D262 The DEVIL rebukes sin
• D263 The DEVIL rides on a fiddlestick
• D264 The DEVIL run through you booted and spurred with a scythe on his back
• D265 The DEVIL shits upon a great heap
• D266 The DEVIL sometimes speaks the truth
• D267 The DEVIL take the hindmost
• D268 The DEVIL (The devil and all) to pay
• D269 The DEVIL turns his back at a door shut
• D270 The DEVIL was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he
• D271 The DEVIL wipes his tail with the poor man's pride
• D272 The DEVIL would have been a weaver but for the temples
• D273 Give the DEVIL his due
• D274 Go to the DEVIL and bishop you
• D275 He is good to fetch the DEVIL a priest
• D276 He is like the DEVIL, always in mischief
• D277 He looks as the DEVIL looked over Lincoln
• D278 He must needs go that the DEVIL drives
• D279 He must rise betimes that will cozen the DEVIL
• D280 He that has shipped the DEVIL must make the best of him
• D281 He that is busy is tempted but by one DEVIL, he that is idle by a legion
• D282 He that takes the DEVIL into his boat must carry him over the sound
• D283 He will swear the DEVIL out of hell
• D284 He would have (To know) the DEVIL and all
• D285 If the DEVIL be a vicar you will be his clerk
• D286 Ill does the DEVIL preserve his servant
• D287 Let one DEVIL ding¹ another
• D288 Let the DEVIL pay the maltman
• D289 More like the DEVIL than Saint Laurence
• D290 One DEVIL is like another
• D291 One had as good eat the DEVIL as the broth he is boiled in
• D292 Sain¹ you well from the DEVIL and the laird's bairns
• D293 Seldom lies the DEVIL dead in a ditch (by the dike side)
• D294 Speak of the DEVIL and he will appear
• D295 That will come when the DEVIL is blind
• D296 There is a DEVIL in every berry of the grape
• D297 Though I am black I am not the DEVIL
• D298 To give the DEVIL the one to carry away the other
• D299 To hug one as the DEVIL hugs a witch
• D300 To play the DEVIL for God's sake
• D301 To play the DEVIL in the bullimong¹
• D302 To play the DEVIL in the horologue
• D303 To set the DEVIL on sale
• D304 Up with it if it be but a DEVIL of two years old
• D305 When he has wounded himself he seeks to the DEVIL for physic
• D306 When the DEVIL is a hog you shall eat bacon
• D307 When the DEVIL is dead there is a wife for Humphrey
• D308 Where had the DEVIL the friar but where he was?
• D309 Where none else will, the DEVIL himself must bear the cross
• D310 The white DEVIL is worse than the black
• D311 A young DEVIL an old saint
• D312 The DEVIL's child the devil's luck
• D313 The DEVIL's guts
• D314 The DEVIL's mouth is a miser's purse
• D315 He is patterning the DEVIL's paternoster
• D316 That which is gotten over the DEVIL's back is spent under his belly
• D317 To be at the DEVIL's ass-a-peak
• D318 To bear the DEVIL's sack
• D319 Raise no more DEVILS (spirits) than you are able to lay