Proverbs with Keyword: "WATER"
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- W85 All the WATER in the sea cannot wash out this stain
- W86 As good (false, unstable) as ever WATER wet
- W87 As WATER in a smith's forge, that serves rather to kindle than quench
- W88 As weak as WATER
- W89 As welcome as WATER into a ship
- W90 Cast not out your foul WATER till you have clean
- W91 Fair WATER makes all clean
- W92 Foul WATER as soon as fair will quench hot fire
- W93 Foul WATER is thrown down the sink
- W94 He was christened with pump WATER
- W95 If you have increased your WATER you must also increase your meal (malt)
- W96 In the deepest WATER is the best fishing
- W97 It will cost hot WATER
- W98 Let none say, I will not drink of this WATER
- W99 Much WATER goes by the mill that the miller knows not of
- W100 Muddy WATER is a bad looking glass
- W101 Often to the WATER, often to the tatter
- W102 Pour not WATER on a drowned mouse (rat)
- W103 Running WATER is better than standing
- W104 There was no more WATER than the ship drew
- W105 To beat WATER in a mortar
- W106 To cast WATER into the sea (Thames)
- W107 To fetch (wring) WATER (blood) out of a stone (flint)
- W108 To lay a WATER
- W109 To look to one's WATER
- W110 To mix WATER with fire
- W111 To pour WATER into a sieve
- W112 To put WATER in one's wine
- W113 To seek WATER in the sea
- W114 To write in WATER (sand)
- W115 Under WATER famine, under snow bread
- W116 WATER afar off quenches not fire
- W117 WATER after figs and wine after pears
- W118 WATER bewitched
- W119 WATER, fire, and soldiers (war) quickly make room
- W120 WATER in May, bread for all the year
- W121 WATER is a waster
- W122 WATER makes one ill, wine makes one sing
- W123 WATER runs smoothest where it is deepest
- W124 WATER trotted is as good as oats
- W125 Where the WATER is shallow no vessel will ride
- W126 You are as welcome as WATER in one's shoes
- W127 You have dived deep into the WATER and have brought up a potsherd
- W128 You seek hot W ATER under cold ice
- W129 He would find WATERS with the first stroke of his spade
- W130 Shallow WATERS make the greatest sound
- W131 Stolen WATERS are sweet