Proverbs with Keyword: "HEAD"
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- H237 A bald HEAD is soon shaven
- H238 Better be the HEAD of a lizard (mouse) than the tail of a lion
- H239 Better be the HEAD of an ass than the tail of a horse
- H240 Better be the HEAD of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry
- H241 Break my HEAD and draw on my hoo¹
- H242 Cover your HEAD by day as much as you will, by night as much as you can
- H243 Cut off the HEAD and tail and throw the rest away
- H244 A great HEAD and thin neck is a sign of a fool
- H245 Great (Mickle) HEAD little wit
- H246 He dares not show his HEAD (himself) for debt
- H247 He has a leaden HEAD and wooden wit
- H248 He has thy HEAD under his girdle
- H249 He that has a HEAD of wax must not walk in the sun
- H250 He that has no HEAD needs no hat (cap, hood)
- H251 He that will be a HEAD let him be a bridge
- H252 He will not give his HEAD for the washing
- H253 The HEAD and feet keep warm, the rest will take no harm
- H254 A HEAD that's white to maids brings no delight
- H255 His HEAD is full of bees
- H256 His HEAD is full of proclamations
- H257 An idle HEAD is a box for the wind
- H258 It has neither HEAD nor tail
- H259 It is better to be the HEAD of a pike than the tail of a sturgeon
- H260 It is good to keep one HEAD for the reckoning
- H261 Little HEAD great wit
- H262 No sooner up but HEAD in the ambry¹ and nose in the cup
- H263 Old HEAD and young hands
- H264 The scabby HEAD loves not the comb
- H265 A scald¹ HEAD (A scald man's head) is soon broken
- H266 Sup with your HEAD, the horner¹ is dead
- H267 That which is good for the HEAD is ill for the neck and shoulders (That which is good for the back is bad for the head)
- H268 To be over HEAD and ears (up to the ears) in a thing
- H269 To break one's HEAD and give him a plaster
- H270 To comb one's HEAD with a three-legged stool
- H271 To come to a HEAD
- H272 To hold up his HEAD like a steed of ten pounds
- H273 To run one's HEAD against a stone wall
- H274 To thrust out (in) by the HEAD and shoulders
- H275 When the HEAD aches all the body is the worse
- H276 A wise HEAD makes a close mouth
- H277 You have a handsome HEAD of hair, pray give me a tester¹
- H279 So many HEADS so many wits
- H280 They laid their HEADS together
- H281 TWO HEADS (wits) are better than one