| 50 Proverbial Phrases Quotes
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“The asses' bridge.
[Lat., Pons Asinorum.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: applied to Proposition 5 of the first book of Euclid
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“A flea in his ear.”
Robert Armin Quotes Source: Nest of Ninnies
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“No better than you should be.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: The Coxcomb (act IV, sc. 3)
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“As cold as cucumbers.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Cupid's Revenge (act I, sc. 1)
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“From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: The Honest Man's Fortune (act II, sc. 2)
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“As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Honest Man's Fortune (act IV, sc. 1)
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“This is a pretty flimflam.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: Little French Lawyer (III, 3)
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“Something given that way.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes Source: The Lovers' Progress (act I, sc. 1)
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“A thorn in the flesh.”
Bible Quotes Source: II Corinthians (ch. XII, v. 7)
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“Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.”
Tom Brown Quotes Source: Aeneus Sylvius--Letter
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“Turn over a new leaf.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Letter to Miss Haviland
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“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I)
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“Through thick and thin.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, p. 370)
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“To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd.
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 923)
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“As clear as a whistle.”
John Byrom Quotes Source: Epistle to Lloyd (I)
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“Put himself upon his good behavior.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 47)
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“By all that's good and glorious.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)
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“Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IV)
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“Within a stone's throw of it.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)
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“Make ducks and drakes with shillings.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“As good as a play.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“A nail in the wound.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“To have a smattering knowledge of anything.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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“To seek a laurel wreath from a bride-cake. [To seek glory by
some trifling performance. A carpet knight.]”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho! (act I, sc. 1)
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