Proverbs with Keyword: "FOX"
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- F627 As long runs the FOX as he feet has
- F628 As rank as a FOX
- F629 As wily (crafty) as a FOX
- F630 Either a FOX (hare) or a fern bush (fernbrake)
- F631 Every FOX must pay his own skin to the flayer
- F632 The FOX fares best (well) when he is cursed (banned)
- F633 The FOX is known by his bush (tail)
- F634 The FOX is taken when he comes to take
- F634a The FOX is the finder
- F635 The FOX kills the lambs and the hounds the old sheep
- F636 The FOX knows many tricks but the hedgehog one great one
- F637 The FOX knows much but more he that catches him
- F638 The FOX may grow gray but never good
- F639 The FOX (wolf) preys farthest from his hole (den)
- F640 The FOX turns monk at length
- F641 The FOX was sick and he knew not where, he clapped his hand on his tail and swore it was there
- F642 The FOX when he cannot reach the grapes says that they are not ripe (are sour)
- F643 He sets the FOX to keep the geese
- F644 He that has a FOX for his mate had need have a net at his girdle
- F645 He that will deceive the FOX must rise betimes
- F646 Like the FOX who having lost his own tail would needs persuade all others out of theirs
- F647 An old FOX cannot be taken by a snare
- F648 An old FOX need learn no craft
- F649 The sleepy FOX has seldom feathered breakfasts
- F650 Though the FOX run the chicken has wings
- F651 To catch the FOX
- F652 To flay the FOX
- F653 We must fall down before a FOX (lion, fortune) in season
- F654 We never find that a FOX dies in the dirt of his own ditch
- F655 When the FOX has got in his head (nose) he will soon make the body follow
- F656 When the FOX preaches beware the geese
- F657 When the FOX sleeps nothing falls (no grapes fall) into his mouth
- F658 When the FOX stays long he looks for a prey
- F659 The FOX's wiles will never enter into the lion's head
- F660 To be in a FOX's sleep
- F661 To yoke FOXES