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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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LABOUR . Labour warms, sloth harms.
LADDER . Step after step the ladder is ascended.
LADLE . The ladle cools the pot.
LAMB'S TAIL . A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail.
LAME . The lame goeth as far as the staggerer.
LAMMAS . After Lammas corn ripens as much by night as by day.
LAND . Land was never lost for want of an heir.
LAND . 918. LANTERN. On a dark night an owl would be glad of a lantern.
LAST STRAW . It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
LATE . Better late than never.
LAUGH . Let them laugh that win.
LAUGH . That's where the laugh comes in.
LAUGH . They laugh the loudest who have least to lose.
LAW . In a thousand pounds of law there's not an ounce of love.
LAW . The law is not the same at morning and night.
 
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Cockneyism : n. The characteristics, manners, or dialect, of a cockney.
 
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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