A dictionary of English proverbs and proverbial phrases

Part 8

Chapter 81,294 wordsPublic domain

Poison--weed 127

Poke--pig 183

Policy--honesty 793

Poor--beg 1358

Poor--giving to 675

Poor--honour 795

Poor man's table 1576

Pope--would be 1270

Pot--ladle 911

Pot--watched 1727

Pottage--other's 1400

Pottage--poor 1269

Pottage--prettiness 1288

Pottage--sluts 1457

Pottle--hay 1139

Pound foolish 1232

Pound--in for 1230

Pound--mischief 1086

Pounds--care of 202

Pounds--pence 1226

Pours--rains 1334

Poverty--debt 400

Poverty--sloth 1454

Powder--trust 1666

Power--knowledge 904

Praise--self 1417

Precept--example 514

Prickles--thistles 1601

Pride--ingratitude 857

Prince--sword 1575

Prince--wretch 1863

Privilege--folly 1736

Prize--wife 1765

Profit--pains 1206

Promises--pity 1251

Prosperity--friends 645

Prosperity--gold 690

Proud--black and 531

Proud--cock 285

Provender--carry 807

Provident--harvests 704

Puddings--dirty 384

Pudding--end 486

Pudding--proof 1300

Pulse--world's 1854

Purse--ask thy 43

Purse--courtesy 331

Purse--empty 484

Purse--fills 1170

Purse--heavy 960

Purse--little 968

Purse--no money 1103

Purse--penny 1228

Q

Quarrels--tools 1642

Quart--neighbour 1142

Quick--markets 1718

Quick--perform 1297

Quiet--Doctor 1240

R

R--oysters 1202

Rain--Candlemas 192

Rain--corpse 745

Raven--starling 129

Reason--bluster 139

Reason--will 1773

Reasoning--man's 860

Rebellion--oppression 1194

Reckoning--feast 561

Reckonings--short 1432

Repent--marry 1038

Repent--trust 1665

Repentance--late 309

Rest--rain 1331

Revenge--best 621

Reversion--kingdom 318

Reward--desert 407

Ribs--birchen twigs 119

Rich--adversity 5

Rich--die 1266

Rich--fifty 741

Rich--lucky 1015

Rich--shame 795

Riches--children 245

Riches--name 1130

Rider--lost 1713

Rider--time 1625

Right--two wrongs 1864

Rise--early to 463

Rise at five 1612

Road--companion 297

Roast--small 140

Roast beef 460

Roasting--eggs 1339

Robbery--exchange 515

Robs Peter 1238

Rock--ruled by 1370

Rogues--laws 930

Rolling stone 1367

Roost--curses 371

Roots--crooked 1543

Rope enough 1591

Ropes--sand 1387

Rose--thorn 1603

Roses--thorns 1605

Ruins--youth 1099

Ruins of folly 1804

Rules--woman 1348

Runs--stumbles 1551

Rushes--good words 713

S

Saddle--colt 292

Sail--Friday 640

Sail--sea 1407

Salt--advice 8

Salt of life 173

Sands--words 1834

Satins--kitchen 897

Saturday--no luck 1094

Saturday--wife 1759

Sauce--hunger 824

Save--spend 1494

Save--youth 1874

Saved--penny 1231

Saving--alchemy 21

Sawyers--top 1646

Sayings--thrifty 1611

Scarce--good men 1188

Scholar--mere 1403

Scholar--fool 1042

Scripture--quote 1327

Sea--calm 187

Sea--fish 588

Sea--lade 1164

Sea--luck 1012

Sea--pray 1287

Second nature 1692

Second thoughts 1607

Seed, good 512

Seen--seldom 1414

Send--go 443

Send--sigh 1435

Sermon--salmon 1385

Servants, good 1419

Seven--rise at 1612

Seven years 228

Shadow--crooked 355

Shadow--light 958

Shadow--sunshine 1561

Shame--devil 1672

Shame--pride 1294

Shave--hand-saw 739

Shaven--bald head 61

Sheep--buy 369

Sheep--hung 819

Sheep--scabbed 1399

Sheep--shear 1423

Sheep--shorn 1430

Shells--eggs 23

Shilling--slow 1149

Shilling--spends 1500

Ship--crazy 348

Ship--great 726

Ship--leak 936

Ship--own 197

Ship--sail 1384

Ship--stocks 877

Ship--tar 1507

Ships--November 1161

Shipwreck--complain 300

Shirt, ragged 1256

Shoe, finest 1426

Shoe fits 592

Shoe pinches 1248

Shoe, want of 1713

Shot--bolt 612

Shovel--silver 935

Shower--drops 453

Sick--devil 419

Sickness--devotion 225

Silent--man 1528

Silent--speak 1487

Silver--butter 178

Silver lining--cloud 271

Silver--white 1440

Sing--birds 1291

Sing--can 124

Sing--say 1395

Sings--Friday 638

Sin, none without 1312

Sin--sorrow 1473

Sink--leak 936

Sit--awhile 425

Sit--lowly 1011

Sit still 1445

Skin deep--beauty 88

Slander--confession 303

Slave--secret 1411

Sleep on it 1243

Sloe-tree--barley 72

Sloth--harms 910

Sloven 1457

Slow--promise 1297

Sluts, eat after 34

Smack--pepper 1233

Smell--kitchen 896

Snow--bread 544

Snow--lies 193

Snow--water 141

Soberness--conceals 459

Soft answer 1861

Soft upon soft 1537

Solomon--wife 1765

Son--like 963

Son--marries 388

Sore eye--elbow 480

Sore--store 1541

Sores--patience 1215

Sorrow--joy 875

Sorrow--lies 870

Sorrow--mirth 1084

Sorrow--time 1624

Sorrows--less 427

Soul--cleansed 317

Souls--large 972

Sour--sauce 871

Sour--sweet 1571

Sow--wrong 1865

Sow's ear--purse 1315

Spain--wine 450

Spaniel--beaten 85

Speak little 1597

Speak once--think 1596

Speak--purse 658

Speak--spare 1486

Speak--think 1595

Speak--well 1489

Speakers--dead 1241

Speed--worse 753

Spend--old 1485

Spend--spare 1486

Spending--bung-hole 1393

Spiders' webs--laws 929

Spigot--saving 1393

Spirits--raise 1335

Spite--nose 1503

Spoon--silver 1441

Spring--swallow 1567

Spur--free horse 1513

Spur--horse 806

Stable door 988

Stable door 1524

Staff--dog 83

Staggerer--lame 914

Starling--raven 129

Steed starves 720

Steed--stolen 988

Steel--tongue 1637

Steeple--bell 108

Sting you--snake 1462

Stink--bear 250

Stinking fish 1531

Stocking 167

Stolen--steed 1524

Stone--dropping 308

Stone--blood 136

Stone--rugged 1373

Stool--guest 733

Stool, own--guest 1476

Stoop for pin 1245

Storms--vows 1708

Story--re-telling 1355

Straw--drowning 449

Straw--last 919

Strength, woman's 1822

Strong--thirty 741

Strife--poverty 1275

Substance 1420

Sudden falls 265

Summer--chimneys 1466

Summer--good 1800

Summer--swallow 1566

Sun--bride 745

Sun--clouds 272

Sun--hay 762

Sun--light 959

Sun--morning 1109

Sun riseth 325

Sunday--Friday 639

Sunday--weep 638

Sunday--wife 1759

Sundays--two 1686

Sun shines--moon 1106

Sunshine--stars 1519

Supper, after 425

Supper--hope 801

Supperless--bed 1562

Sure card 307

Surely--softly 1464

Sweet--taste 1583

Sweetest water 1753

Swim--depth 406

Swine--pearls 1221

Swine--turned 1679

Swing--youth 1876

Swords--words 1835

T

Tail--salt 1386

Tale--tell 394

Talk--good 696

Talk--nurse 1163

Talks--tongue 1638

Tame Shrew 1434

Tame--wedding 1742

Tar--ship 1507

Tarry--tide 1622

Taste--kitchen 896

Tax--disease 431

Taxes--death 221

Teaching--child 161

Teeth--aching 4

Teeth--tongue 1635

Teeth--wolves 1821

Temper--tongue 1633

Tempers--God 1430

Tenant--bad 482

Tenants--ill 4

Texts--proverbs 1304

Thief of time 1295

Thief--opportunity 1192

Thief--receiver 1340

Thief--receivers 1341

Thief--thunder 1614

Think--live 1598

Thinks--says 1397

Thirty years 606

Thistles--brain 157

Thistles--harvest 752

Thorn--cuckoo 369

Thorns--barefoot 65

Thorns--dancing 382

Thread--draw 448

Thread--breaketh 1735

Three women 1033

Thrift--ruin 1501

Thrive--up at five 593

Thrive--plant 1352

Thrive--wive 1818

Thrown--wrestle 1862

Throws--horse 1361

Thrushes--beggars 1808

Thunder-bolt--pryeth 1306

Thursday--crosses 1094

Tide--tarry 1622

Timber--split 716

Time for study 1550

Time--season 1409

Time--sorrow 1474

Time--stitch 1532

Times--fault 553

Toil--pleasure 1261

Toilers--thinkers 1600

Toll--market 1031

Toll--talking 1582

Tom--play 1256

Tongue--shorter 468

Tongue--knot 901

Tongue--nurse's 1163

Tongue--slip 1452

Tongue speaketh 770

Tongue--strength 1822

Too late--advice 11

Too late--never 1064

Tools--edged 476

Tools--workmen 1849

Toothache--music 1125

Touchstone--love 1002

Trade--two of a 16

Trash--beggary 99

Tread on worm 1855

Treasurer--God 1497

Tree--crooked 355

Tree--falls 539

Tree--fruit 652

Trees--straight 1543

Trials--present 1346

Tricks--old dog 1176

Tries--time 1626

Trifles--troubles 1661

Trouble--bagpipe 57

Trouble--company in 295

Trouble--hunting 1714

Troubles--company 296

Troubles--dowry 723

Trough--own 1480

Trumpery--beggary 99

Trumpet--own 1283

Truss up wit 1813

Trust--speak fair 1491

Trust--try 1676

Trust not--water 1528

Truth--drunken folk 458

Truth--evasions 347

Truth--fools 242

Truth--libel 947

Truth--old saws 1184

Try--trust 1665

Tuesday--health 1094

Turncoat--wine 1797

Twig--bend 109

Twig--tree 110

Tyrant--cruelty 364

U

Unbidden guest 1476

Unkindness--cut 377

Unmissed--unknown 1689

Use--keep 882

Use--nature 1692

V

Valour--stratagem 1544

Venice Glass 351

Vessels--empty 485

Virtue--modesty 1093

Virtue--necessity 1135

Virtue's colour 138

Virtue--touchstone 1002

W

Wait--world 1851

Walk a mile 425

Walk--sun 1730

Wall--weakest 1734

Walls--ears 467

Walnut tree 85

Waste, wilful 1724

Want--strife 1547

Want, woeful 1724

Want not 1723

Ware--pleasing 1260

Ware--sell 1030

Washing--crow 362

Washing--face 1061

Waste--haste 755

Waste--spend 1496

Waste--want 1547

Water--cat 1401

Water--deepest 402

Water--drink 450

Water--famine 544

Water--fire 580

Water--wine 1792

Waters--deep 726

Waters--still 1530

Waters--troubled 591

Way--will 1776

Wealth--contentment 315

Wealth--marries 1037

Wealth--wife 1764

Wealth--Monday 1094

Wealthy--wise 1805

Weapon--wit 1814

Weary--well-doing 1751

Weather--bad 1470

Weather--calm 879

Weather--fair 1740

Weather--rainy 880

Weather--thunder 1613

Weather--wind 1789

Wedded life 76

Wedlock--wake 333

Wednesday--best day 1094

Weed--poison 127

Weeds--words 1833

Weight--strife 1546

Weights--words 1836

Well done--once 1187

Well--dry 1729

Well--truth 1669

Weep--Sunday 638

Weeping Cross 998

Wet--mist 1406

Whale--sprat 1512

Wickedness--woe 1819

Wife--bier 194

Wife--gentle 831

Wife--grumbles 1553

Wife--good terms 1536

Wife--key 885

Wife, little 976

Wife, one good 1762

Wife--son 1467

Wiles, caught by 1768

Will--way 1731

Will--lean 895

Will, woman's 1825

Win--laugh 921

Wind--against 1504

Wind--puff not 1308

Wind--sheep 1430

Wind--south [fishing] 589

Wind--words 1838

Window 1277

Winds--contrary 348

Winds--high 783

Winds--March 38

Winds--rain 688

Wine--barrel 75

Wine--counsels 320

Wine--old 1180

Wings--covers me 336

Wings--flying 600

Winter--Candlemas 192

Winter--green 729

Winter--warm 1720

Winter--woodcock, one 1828

Winter--woodcock 1567

Winter wind 1082

Wisdom--husband 831

Wisdom--age 905

Wise--adversity 5

Wise--some 1197

Wise--word enough 1839

Wise--forty 741

Wise--himself 785

Wise--lucky 1016

Wise--merry 1069

Wise--penny 1232

Wise--twice 1682

Wise folk 611

Wishers and woulders 814

Wist, had I 117

Wit--brevity 163

Wit, mother 1114

Wit, need of 673

Wit--pound of 430

Wit--sloth 1453

Wit is out 1796

Wit's plough 1225

Wiving--counsel 321

Wiving--destiny 411

Woe--angry men 31

Woe--hasty men 757

Woe--wilful man 1770

Wolf--growing youth 1873

Woman--beaten 85

Woman--fair 386

Woman--head 763

Woman--rules 1348

Woman--silence 1439

Woman--tongue 1639

Woman--weep 1745

Woman's mind 1082

Woman's tongue 913

Woman's work 1823

Woman's yes 1868

Women--discreet 429

Women--drive 1349

Women--England 488

Women--glasses 680

Women--turned 1679

Women--words 1837

Wood--beans 78

Wood--old 1180

Wood--out of 791

Wood--trees 1657

Woodcock--winter 1567, 1828

Woodcock's thigh 1211

Woods--ears 576

Wool--little 368

Wool--shaving 1422

Word--true 1663

Words--leaves 403

Words--soft 1465

Words--wranglers 1860

Words swim 1793

Work--all 1257

Work--play 1256

Work--quick 1324