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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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ZEAL . Zeal without knowledge is frenzy.
 
Old English 'word lottery' pick

Hooky : a. Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.; v. t. A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to run away, to play truant.

 
Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston, published originally in 1880 in London by Whittaker & Co
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