Proverbs with Keyword: "HORSE"

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• H629 As holy as a HORSE
• H630 As shortly as a HORSE will lick his ear
• H631 Behind before, before behind, a HORSE is in danger to be pricked
• H632 The best HORSE needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching
• H633 The best-shod HORSE does slip sometimes
• H634 The blind HORSE is hardiest¹
• H635 Choose a HORSE made, a servant to be made
• H636 Choose a HORSE made and a wife to make
• H637 The common HORSE is worst shod
• H638 Do not spur a free HORSE
• H639 Either win the HORSE or lose the saddle
• H640 A flea-bitten HORSE never tires
• H641 A four white-foot HORSE is a horse for a fool, a three white-foot horse is a horse for a king, and if he has but one I'll give him to none
• H642 A free HORSE will soon tire
• H643 A gentle HORSE should not be oversore (should be seldom) spurred
• H644 Give your HORSE a Welsh bait
• H645 A good HORSE becomes never a jade
• H646 A good HORSE cannot be of a bad color
• H647 A good HORSE draws himself and his master out of the mire
• H648 A good HORSE oft needs a good spur
• H649 A grunting HORSE and a groaning wife never fail their master
• H650 Have a HORSE of your own, you may borrow another
• H651 He has eaten a HORSE and the tail hangs out at his mouth
• H652 He has taken my HORSE and left me the tether
• H653 He is a weak HORSE that may not bear the saddle
• H654 He is so hungry he could eat a HORSE behind the saddle
• H655 He is undone, HORSE and man (foot)
• H656 He that cannot beat the HORSE (ass) beats the saddle (packsaddle)
• H657 He that has a white HORSE and a fair wife never wants trouble
• H658 He that has neither HORSE nor cart cannot always load
• H659 He that hires the HORSE must ride before
• H660 He will lie as fast as a HORSE (dog) will trot
• H661 A hired HORSE tired never
• H662 The HORSE looks not on the hedge but the corn (hay)
• H663 A HORSE may stumble (snapper¹) on four feet
• H664 The HORSE next the mill carries all the grist
• H665 A HORSE of another (that) color
• H666 The HORSE that draws after him his halter is not altogether escaped
• H667 The HORSE (ass) thinks one thing and he that saddles him another
• H668 A hungry HORSE makes a clean manger
• H669 I will make him water his HORSE at Highgate
• H670 It is a good HORSE that never stumbles
• H671 It is an ill HORSE that can neither whinny nor wag his tail
• H672 It is good to ride on the sure HORSE
• H673 It would make a HORSE break his bridle or a dog his halter (It would make a horse [dog] laugh)
• H674 Lend not HORSE nor wife nor sword
• H675 Lend your HORSE for a long journey, you may have him return with his skin
• H676 Let a HORSE drink when he will, not what he will
• H677 Let the quick HORSE draw the dead horse out of the mire
• H678 Look not a given HORSE in the mouth
• H679 My HORSE pisses whey, my man pisses amber, my horse is for my way, my man is for my chamber
• H680 The old HORSE must die in some man's hand
• H681 An old HORSE to a young soldier
• H682 One may lead a HORSE to the water but four and twenty cannot gar¹ him drink
• H683 A proud HORSE that will not carry (bear) his own provender
• H684 A resty (boisterous) HORSE must have a sharp spur (a rough bridle)
• H685 Ride a HORSE and mare on the shoulders, an ass and mule on the buttocks
• H686 A Royston HORSE and a Cambridge master of arts will give way to nobody
• H687 A running HORSE is an open grave
• H688 A running HORSE needs no spur
• H689 A scabbed (galled) HORSE cannot abide the comb
• H690 A scald (scabbed) HORSE is good enough for a scabbed (scald) squire
• H691 A short HORSE is soon curried
• H692 Some may better steal a HORSE than others look on (look over the hedge)
• H693 Steal the HORSE and carry home the bridle
• H694 That HORSE is troubled with corns
• H695 They are good willy¹ of their HORSE that have none
• H696 To a greedy eating HORSE a short halter
• H697 To go round like a blind HORSE in a mill
• H698 To stay as one HORSE stays for another
• H699 To work for a dead HORSE
• H700 Touch (Rub) a galled HORSE on the back and he will wince (kick)
• H701 A weand¹ HORSE and a rotten harrow are soon parted
• H702 Well, HORSE, winter will come
• H703 Where stands your great HORSE
• H704 Where the HORSE lies down, there some hair will be found
• H705 You bridle the HORSE by the tail
• H706 You may beat a HORSE till he be sad and a cow till she be mad
• H707 You may (may not) know the HORSE by his harness
• H708 You will ride on a HORSE that was foaled of an acorn (You will ride on a wooden horse)
• H709 Your HORSE cast a shoe
• H710 His HORSE's head is swollen so big that he cannot come out of the stable
• H711 Trust not a HORSE's heel nor a dog's tooth
• H712 You may break a HORSE's back be he never so strong
• H713 From the HORSES to the asses
• H714 Good HORSES make short miles
• H715 HORSES, dogs, and servants devour many
• H716 They are scarce of HORSES where two ride on a dog
• H717 They cannot set (To set) their HORSES together
• H721 As high as three (two) HORSE LOAVES¹