A dictionary of English proverbs and proverbial phrases
Part 6
Bind--fast 551
Bind--sure 1564
Bird--best 1211
Birdcall 587
Bird--catch 1386
Bird--early 465
Bird--fairest 361
Bird--old 223
Bird--roost 1366
Bird--sing 1442
Birds--little 970
Birds of prey 1291
Bite--bark 442
Bite best--fish 1784
Bite--beggars 1810
Bite--fish 1782
Bite--own dog 1203
Biters--barkers 71
Bitter--sweet 829
Bitter thing 1535
Blackamore 1722
Blackberries 1262
Blame--bidden 118
Blame--pity 1251
Blamed--truth 1674
Blessing--God 1693
Blind--will 1773
Blind horse--mettle 1074
Blind horse--wink 1799
Blind--love 1001
Blossom--timely 1627
Blow--felled 1165
Blow--first 578
Blow--second 1410
Blows--unkind 1838
Blows--wind 1787
Boast--great 140
Body--think 1598
Bond--honest man's 1832
Bone--bred 162
Bone--tongue 1636
Bones--buys 23
Book--author 50
Books--years 1867
Born--stable 1514
Born--wept 1754
Borrow--contented 313
Borrowing 1477
Bosom--snake 1462
Bottle--milk 1076
Bottom--bare 1483
Bottom--fish 584
Bottom--spare 1484
Bottom--tub 505
Bought wit 1812
Brain--idle 832
Brains--mob 1091
Branch--roost 1366
Brave--the 624
Bray--vicar of 1703
Bread--buttered 182
Bread--dry 460
Bread, no 737
Bread--eaten 623
Bread--snow 544
Breakfast 801
Breath--mother's 1112
Bride--sun 745
Brim--spare 1484
Broken at last 1250
Broken--promises 1299
Broken staff 1667
Broom--furze 660
Broth--cooks 1506
Brusher's--critics 354
Bud--nip 1150
Build--flit 1213
Build houses 613
Build--pull down 1310
Built--Rome 1369
Bung-holes 1393
Buried--rich 1140
Burneth--gown 581
Bush--beats 122
Bush--bird 120
Bush--wine 1795
Bushel--corn 1058
Business 503
Butter--cheese 1075
Butter--parsnips 1465
Butter-cakes 1810
Buttock 63
Buy--houses 613
Buyers--wool 1831
C
Cable--mouse 1620
Cake--good 375
Calendar 396
Calends 866
Calf--bad 339
Calm--storm 1540
Calm sea--pilot 1244
Calms--vows 1708
Calves--fat 229
Camel's back 919
Camels--gnats 682
Candle--devil 417
Candle-stick 195
Candle--sport 1509
Candlemas--wind 1785
Care--coin 287
Care--court 329
Care--goods 974
Care--kill 214
Care--sings 1444
Cares--children 248
Cart--creaks 350
Cart-wheel 1857
Castle--house 489
Cat--care 201
Cat--fair words 1842
Cat--mercy 1067
Cat--old 1173
Cat--scalded 1401
Cats--muffled 1123
Catch bird 1386
Caught--thief 1592
Certainty 227
Chance--main 226
Change mind 1083
Change of weather 1741
Chapel of devotion 225
Chastening 317
Cheap--pity 1251
Cheapest--best 111
Cheeriman--Doctor 1240
Cheese--butter 1075
Cheese--chalk 224
Chickens--count 324
Chickens--crumbs 366
Chickens--curses 371
Chickens--picking 244
Child--nurse 893
Child--train 239
Children--devil's 1013
Children--maid's 52
Children--twice 1182
Chimneys 1466
Chin--swim 1572
Chip--stock 1533
Choice--the 53
Choosers--beggars 97
Christened 687
Churchyard--fat 729
Churchyard--May 810
City--pity 1252
Civility 1117
Clasp--one hand 1189
Clay--St. David's 1382
Clergy--wit 1114
Clerk--clock 268
Cloak--religion 1350
Cloth--ale 22
Cloth--coat 278
Clothes--critics 354
Cloud--pryeth 1306
Clouting--sack 1378
Clown--doctor 437
Clown--title 1628
Coat--gay 279
Cock--crows 778
Cock's stride 1680
Coin--own 1217
Cold--soon 1468
Cold water--words 1844
Colour--horse 805
Colours--treatise 135
Colt--ragged 1328
Companion--pocket 1229
Companions 1372
Company--bad 84
Company--fit 938
Comfort 908
Comforts 248
Common life 1304
Complain--workmen 1849
Confession 305
Confidence 1311
Confine--tongue 1634
Conjure down 1335
Conquer--kindness 889
Conscience--clear 307
Conscience--guilty 735
Conscience--stomach 1536
Constant dropping 1739
Contempt 542
Contention 1578
Cook--lazy 828
Cooks--broth 1506
Cooks--devil 685
Cook-shop 1520
Cool--good words 1844
Corn--April 36
Corn--buy 369
Corn--May 1053
Corn--measure 1058
Corn-bin 207
Corpse--rain 745
Cottages--love 1003
Cough--dry 461
Cough--hid 779
Cough--love 1008
Counsel--fool 604
Counsel--glass 677
Counsel--good 702
Counsellor--best 1243
Country--rich 1365
Courage 852
Courts--love 1003
Cow gives water 74
Cow--keep 1076
Cow--kissed 962
Cow--sell 369
Cow's horn 181
Cozen--cousin 334
Craft's master 1043
Craves 410
Crosses--Thursday 1094
Crown 357
Crows--cock 1174
Crows--hen 363
Cruel--cowards 341
Crumb--musician 1127
Crust--cat 211
Cry--never 1531
Cure--care 200
Cure--prevention 1290
Cut--nose 1503
Cuts--short 1431
Cuts--tongue 1637
D
Daintiness 820
Dance--chance 227
Danger--debt 401
Dangerous--delays 405
Dark night 918
Daughter--little 969
Daughter--son 1467
Day--longest 994
Daylight--truth 1671
Dead--speak 1488
Dear--wit 1816
Dearth--wet 49
Death--cough 461
Death--taxes 221
Death's blossoms 730
Death's feast--war 1715
Debt--sorrow 1471
Debt--supperless 1562
Deceit--brimmer 166
Deceit--smooth 1353
December--thunder 1613
Deed--better 116
Deed--will 1771
Deeds--words 713
Deeds--words 1833
Delays--desires 409
Depth--out of 406
Depth--out of 1573
Deserve--success 1556
Desire--deserve 408
Despair--hope 800
Desperate cures 379
Devil--chapel 256
Devil--colours 291
Devil--cooks 685
Devil--horseback 98
Devil--imp 1580
Devil--knife 944
Devil--quote 1327
Devil--truth 1672
Devil's chaplain 1716
Devil's delight 365
Devil's luck 1013
Devotion--short 822
Die--love 1006
Diet--Doctor 1240
Digests--cheese 233
Dines late 1577
Dinner--waits 1711
Discretion--valour 1697
Disparagement 530
Dispraise 1282
Distress--company 296
Divine--forgive 496
Doctor--death 399
Doctor--pay 177
Doctor--truth 1675
Dog--bone 142
Dog--Brag 153, 154, 155
Dog--foremost 619
Dog--hanging 1732
Dog--hare 787
Dog--keep 70
Dog--killing 744
Dog--living 986
Dog--sleeping 1451
Dogs--dainty 384
Dogs--little 748
Dog's tooth 1668
Doing--saying 1396
Donkey's gallop 1433
Door--poverty 1277
Doors--housekeeper 815
Dowry--great 723
Drawer's--wine 1794
Dream--courtship 333
Drink--ale 22
Drink by measure 474
Drink--eat 473
Drink--horse 808
Drinking--appetite 475
Drive--plough 1265
Drive--women 1349
Dropping--constant 308
Drowned--born 145
Drowned--wilful 1769
Drowned--wine 1792
Dry--ever 456
Dry--well 1729
Due--devil 414
Dull boy 1257
Dunghill 285
Dust--bushel 1029
E
Eagles--carcase 198
Eagle's eye--surgeon 1565
Ease--honour 796
Ease--itch 863
Ease--sufferance 1558
East--rain 1329
East--too far 1644
East wind--fish 1782
East wind--man 1786
Easter--white 253
Easter day 1330
Easy chair--frugality 654
Ebb--tide 1617
Eel--hide 477
Eel--sack 780
Eggs--reason 1339
Eggs--sluts 34
Egg-shell--wit 1813
Elbow-grease 481
Ell--inch 853
End--day 994
Ends--both 190
End well 103
Enemy--faults 558
Enemy--shoots 1428
Enemy--wine 1797
England--famine 545
Englishman--house 208
Englishman--mist 1406
Enough--ask 42
Enough--word 1839
Escutcheon 137
Estate--trade 1647
Evasions--crafty 347
Evening--red 501
Evenings--clear 275
Everything--place 1254
Evil--bear 82
Evil--good 698
Evil name 510
Evil--old age 1171
Evil--root 839
Exception--rule 1374
Experience--caution 220
Extravagance 1492
Eye--picture, mind 1081
Eyes--fields 576
Eyes--hedges 775
F
Face--painting 1061
Face--wind 1504
Faces--fair 533
Faces--two 1683
Fair day--praise 1284
Fairest rose 1371
Fair lady 529
Fair weather 1332
Faith--tale-bearers 1579
Fall--pride 1293
Fall--sit still 1445
Fall--standing 1517
Fast bind 551
Fast-day 100
Fast--St. Stephen 1383
Fasting 314
Father--children 249
Father--like 963
Fat--windfalls 1790
Fault--amends 304
Fault-menders 555
Fault--woo 1827
Faults--search 1707
Favour--kissing 894
Fear--cruelty 364
Feast--enough 490
Feather--birds of a 123
Feathers--fine 563
Feet--light 1775
Feet--slip 1452
Feet--warm 1721
Feet--wet 217
Fellowship 1278
Fiction--truth 1670
Fiddle 940
Fiddlers--sing 1443
Fifer--pay 573
Fifer play--fiddle 574
Fight--flourish 599
Fighting 1208
Filth--pools 1518
Find--seek 1413
Find--sure 1564
Fingers--thorns 1606
Fire--burnt child 172
Fire--frying-pan 656
Fire--hot 727
Fire--house 1144
Fire--quench 1323
Fire--ships 1425
Fire--slow 1021
Fire--smoke 1461
Fire--sticks 1526
Fire--zeal 1878
Fires--straight 356
Firmness 536
First--be not 1146
First sight 876
Five pounds 1320
Five--up at 593
Fish--all 1145
Fish--bite 1782
Fish bite best 1784
Fish--cat 217
Fish--small--venture 1700
Fish--small 1458
Fish--troubled waters 1660
Fishes--mute 1129
Fishing--best 402
Flail--November 1161
Flatter 313
Flattereth 7
Fleas--catching 756
Flies--hungry 825
Flies--large 929
Flies--law 928
Flint--coldest 290
Flock--infects 1399
Flood--fortune 1616
Flour--fancy 548
Flower--patience 1214
Flowers--May 38
Flowers in May 1746
Fodder--barley 74
Fodder--morning 1196
Folk--poor, pottage 1269
Folk--poor 1268
Folly--wealth 1736
Folly--wisdom 1804
Folly--wit is 1815
Folly--zeal 1880
Fool--beggar 94
Fool--bet 115
Fool--demands 1119
Fool--fifteen 1022
Fool--land 917
Fool--money 1100
Fool overtakes 1201
Fool--play 1258
Fool--scholar 1042
Fool's argument 1709
Fools--feasts 562
Fools--fiddlers 1443
Fools--harms 751
Fools--market 1032
Fools--merry 243
Fools--mistress 519
Fools--old 1178
Fools--tie 902
Fools--truth 242
Fools--wise 1702
Foot--bare 66
Foot--shoe 1426
Forbear 81
Forearmed 620
Forehead--mind 1081
Forelock--time 1619
Foresee--hazards 952
Forget--apt to 1298
Forget--forego 618
Forget--forgive 622
Forget wrong 1356
Forgotten--seen 1414
Forgotten vows 1708
Fortune--face 527
Fortune--good 424
Fortunes--manners 1025
Fortune--riches 1360
Fortune--pipes 381
Fortune--tide 1616
Fortune--wife 1761
Foul heart 534
Four pounds 1320
Fox--grapes 1479
Foxes--old 1179
Fray--blow 1410
Free--spend 1496
Free--thoughts 1608
Frenzy--zeal 1879
Friday--losses 1094
Friday--Sunday 639
Friday--sing 638
Friend--court 328
Friend--faults 558
Friend--in need 1138
Friend--jest 868
Friend--leave 1018
Friend--lend 943
Friend--trifle 1658
Friend--try 1676
Friend--wine 1797
Friends--adversity 6
Friends--few 891
Friends--long 1345
Friends--old 1180
Friends--packing 700
Friends--poverty 1274
Friends--prosperity 1301
Friends--purse 659
Friends--store 686
Friends--trade 1649
Friendship--window 1277
Frost--hail 736
Frost--work 1848
Frosts--May 1089
Frugality 855
Fruit--flowers 598
Fruit--forbidden 615
Fruit--September 1418
Fruit--tree 1654
G
Gain--little 1205
Gain--pain 1204
Gamesters 1516
Gander--sauce 1388
Garments 146
Garner--dearth 395
Gate--creaking 349
Gate--stile 1527
Gent--title 1628
Gentleman--coat 279
Gentleness--wife 831
Giblets--alms 28
Gladness--sadness 1381
Go--send 443
God--blessing 1693
God--charity 230
God--church 256
God--church 257
God--flax 594
God--for all 504
God--friend 643