Proverbs with Keyword: "DOG"
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- D433 As dry as a DOG
- D434 As greedy as a DOG
- D435 As idle as a DOG
- D436 As long as a DOG (cat) would be bound with a blood pudding¹
- D437 As low as DOG to bow
- D438 As melancholy as a DOG
- D439 As nimble as a new-gelt DOG
- D440 As sick as a DOG
- D441 As weary as a DOG
- D442 A bad DOG never sees the wolf
- D443 Beat the DOG before the lion
- D444 The best DOG leaps the stile first
- D445 Better to have a DOG fawn on you than bite (bark at) you
- D446 Bid a churlish DOG bite
- D447 A curst DOG (cur) must be tied short
- D448 A dead DOG bites (barks) not
- D449 The DOG (wolf) barks in vain at the moon
- D450 The DOG fights best that out of danger plays
- D451 The DOG gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it
- D452 A DOG in a doublet
- D453 A DOG (man) of wax
- D454 The DOG offended, the sow suffered
- D455 The DOG returns to his vomit
- D456 The DOG that kills the wolf is at length killed by the wolf
- D457 The DOG (cat) that licks ashes trust not with meal
- D458 The DOG to his vomit and the swine (sow) to his (her) mire
- D459 The DOG wags his tail not for love of you but of your bread
- D460 The DOG who hunts foulest hits at most faults
- D461 A DOG will bark ere he bite
- D462 A DOG will endure no companions in the kitchen
- D463 A DOG will not cry (bite, yowl) if you strike (beat) him with a bone
- D464 Every DOG has his day
- D465 Every DOG is stout at his own door (is a lion at home)
- D466 Every naughty DOG hangs his tail
- D467 Fight DOG, fight bear, the devil part them
- D468 Fling the DOG a bone
- D469 The foremost DOG catches the hare
- D470 A good DOG deserves a good bone
- D471 A good DOG never barked but¹ a bone
- D472 A good DOG seldom meets with a good bone
- D473 Hang a DOG on a crab tree and he'll never love verjuice
- D474 He is not able to give a DOG a crust
- D475 He looks like a DOG under a door
- D476 He that has a DOG of his own may go to the kirk with a clean breast
- D477 He that would hang his DOG gives out first that he's mad
- D478 He will lie as fast as a DOG will lick a dish
- D479 Help the lame DOG over the stile
- D480 The hindmost DOG may catch the hare
- D481 I am not everybody's DOG that whistles
- D482 I will not keep a DOG and bark myself
- D483 If the DOG bark go in, if the bitch bark go out
- D484 If the old DOG barks he gives counsel
- D485 If you will have the DOG follow you (have a good dog), give him bread (feed him well)
- D486 It is a good DOG can catch anything
- D487 It is an ill DOG that deserves not a crust
- D488 It is an ill (poor) DOG that is not worth the whistling
- D489 It is hard to make an old DOG stoop
- D490 It would make a DOG doff his doublet
- D491 It would vex a DOG (man) to see a pudding creep
- D492 Knit my DOG a pair of breeches and my cat a codpiece
- D493 Let the DOG worry the hog
- D494 Like a DOG in a fair
- D495 A living DOG is better than a dead lion
- D496 Love me love my DOG
- D497 Many a DOG is hanged for his skin and many a man is killed for his purse
- D498 An old DOG barks not in vain
- D499 An old DOG (hound) bites sore
- D500 An old DOG will learn no tricks
- D501 An old DOG (mastiff) will not be led in a string (chain)
- D502 Sirrah¹ your DOG but sirrah not me, for I was born before you could see
- D503 A still DOG bites sore
- D504 There is a DOG in the well
- D505 To be cozened as the DOG was who thought to go to breakfast and went to hanging
- D506 To be old DOG at it
- D507 To blush like a black DOG
- D508 To call a DOG a dog
- D509 To die like a DOG
- D510 To give one the DOG to hold
- D511 To look like a DOG that has lost his tail
- D512 To love it as a DOG loves a whip
- D513 To play the DOG in the manger, not eat yourself nor let anybody else
- D514 To use one like a DOG
- D515 A waking DOG afar off barks at a sleeping lion
- D516 When a DOG is drowning everyone offers him drink
- D517 When the DOG is beaten out of the room where will they lay their stink?
- D518 While a DOG gnaws a bone he hates his fellow
- D519 The worst DOG that is wags his tail
- D520 Cut off a DOG's tail and he will be a dog still
- D521 A DOG's life, hunger and ease
- D522 A DOG's nose and a maid's knees are always cold
- D523 To make a DOG's bed
- D524 To sleep DOG's sleep
- D525 Wake not at every DOG's bark
- D526 All DOGS bark not (No dogs shall bark) at him
- D527 All the DOGS follow the salt bitch
- D528 Cowardly DOGS bark much
- D529 DOGS are fine in the field
- D530 DOGS bark more for custom than fierceness
- D531 DOGS barking aloof bite not at hand
- D532 DOGS begin in jest and end in earnest
- D533 DOGS must eat
- D534 DOGS run away with whole shoulders
- D535 DOGS will rid¹ swine
- D536 He sleeps as DOGS do when wives sift meal (bake)
- D537 He that lies down (goes to bed, sleeps) with DOGS must rise with fleas
- D538 Hungry DOGS will eat (love) dirty puddings
- D539 Like DOGS, if one barks all bark
- D540 Little DOGS start the hare but the great ones catch it
- D541 Many DOGS may easily worry one
- D542 Silly DOGS are more angry with the stone than with the hand that had flung it
- D543 To go to the DOGS
- D544 Two DOGS never agree about one bone
- D545 Two DOGS strive for a bone and the third runs away with it