School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)

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   Letting the cat out of the bag.
   A slip of the tongue is no fault of the mind,
   When it slips too often, is is caught behind.

   

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2. Proverbs

   

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   Never sell your hen on a wet day. Self praise is no praise. You never miss a slice off a cut loaf. It's no use closing the stable door when the horse is gone. Listeners never hear good of themselves. It's a bad hen that cannot scrape for herself. Burning a candle at both ends. The nearer the church the farther from God. We must be cruel to be kind. A warm hand is a cold heart. It takes a dirty hand to make a clean hearth. Don-duckety grey.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. proverbs (~4,377)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Carmel Maguire

   Gender

   Female

3. Proverbs

   

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   Don't carry your wish bone where your back-bone ought to be.
   When your in Rome do as Rome does.
   The darkest hour is before the dawn.
   After a storm comes a calm.
   Never take a book by the cover.
   She's a real book-worm.

   

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