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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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DAINTY DOGS . Dainty dogs may have to eat dirty puddings.
DANCES . He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
DANCING . They love dancing well that dance among thorns.
DANGER . The danger's past, and God's forgotten.
DARK . It is as good to be in the dark as without light.
DARK . He that gropes in the dark finds that he would not.
DARK MAN . A dark man's a jewel in a fair woman's eye.
DAUGHTER . 389. DAUGHTER. 390. DAYLIGHT. Daylight will peep through a small hole.
DEAD . As dead as a door-nail.
DEAD MAN'S SHOES . He that waits for a dead man's shoes may go long enough barefoot.
DEAF . There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.
DEAF MAN . Tell that tale to a deaf man.
DEARTH . It's a wicked thing to make a dearth one's garner.
DEATH . Death keeps no calendar.
DEATH . Death is deaf and hears no denial.
 
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Cross-days : n. pl. The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
 
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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