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    • An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
      • Variant: "A beer a day keeps the germs away"
      • Variant: "An apple a day keeps Bill Gates away"
    • A poor workman blames his tools.
      • Possible interpretation: to blame the tools for bad workmanship is an attempt to excuse one’s lack of skill.
    • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
      • Possible interpretation: What you have is worth more than what you dream about. (Bird is slang for a woman, so could apply to courtship)
    • A burnt child dreads the fire.
    • A night with Venus and a life with mercury.
      • Anti-promiscurity adage, alluding to a 18th-century mercury-based folk treatment for syphilis
      • Cited in Bartz, Diane, "Har, me hearties! Excavating Blackbeard’s ship", Reuters (via Yahoo! News), 30 October 2006. URL accessed on 2006-11-01.
    • A cat may look at a king.
      • Possible interpretation: If a cat may look at the king - then I have a right to look where I please.
    • A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
      • Possible interpretation: The strength of any group depends on the individual strength of each of its members.
    • A closed mouth catches no flies.
      • Meaning: It is often safer to keep one’s mouth shut.
    • A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once.
      • From William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
      • Possible interpretation: A coward constantly and fearfully imagines his own demise, while the valiant give no thought to how they might be harmed. Also: Worrying about a forthcoming disaster may cause as much (or even more) pain as the disaster when it occurs (but does neither change it nor make it easier).

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