Proverbs with Keyword: "FIRE"
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- F246 As contrary as FIRE and water
- F247 As hot as FIRE
- F248 As red (bright) as FIRE
- F249 Better a wee (little) FIRE to warm us than a mickle (great) fire to burn us
- F250 Cut not the FIRE with a sword
- F251 Do not blow the FIRE (coal) thou wouldst quench
- F252 A fair FIRE makes a roomy flet¹
- F253 FIRE and water are good servants but bad (ill) masters
- F254 FIRE and water have no mercy
- F255 FIRE cannot be hidden in flax (straw)
- F256 FIRE descends not
- F257 FIRE divided burns with less force
- F258 FIRE is as hurtful as healthful
- F259 FIRE is good for the farcy¹
- F260 FIRE is love, and water sorrow
- F261 The FIRE is never without heat
- F262 FIRE of flax, love of a quean, wind from the tail, all is one
- F263 FIRE, quoth the fox when he pissed on the ice
- F264 FIRE raked up in ashes keeps its heat a long time
- F265 FIRE that's closest kept burns most of all
- F266 A good FIRE is the best household stuff
- F267 He bears (carries) FIRE in one hand and water in the other
- F268 He is FIRE and tow (flax)
- F269 He that can make a FIRE well can end a quarrel
- F270 He that makes a FIRE of straw has store of smoke and nothing else
- F271 I had rather ask of my FIRE brown bread than borrow of my neighbor white
- F272 It is a dangerous FIRE begins in the bedstraw
- F273 Kindle not a FIRE that cannot be extinguished
- F274 A little FIRE burns up a great deal of corn
- F275 Make no FIRE, raise no smoke
- F276 No FIRE without fuel
- F277 One FIRE (heat) drives out another
- F278 Put not FIRE to tow (flax)
- F279 The same FIRE which purifies gold burns straw
- F280 Soft FIRE makes sweet malt
- F281 That FIRE which lights us at a distance will burn us when near
- F282 There is no FIRE without some smoke
- F283 To come to fetch FIRE
- F284 To force FIRE from snow
- F285 To go through FIRE and water
- F286 To play with FIRE
- F287 To quench FIRE with oil
- F288 To weigh the FIRE and measure the wind
- F289 Well may he smell FIRE whose gown burns
- F290 Well to work and make a FIRE, it does care and skill require
- F291 What he gets he gets out of the FIRE
- F292 Whose FIRE smokes not?
- F293 You cannot make the FIRE so low but it will get out