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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Variant: "A beer a day keeps the germs away"
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Variant: "An apple a day keeps Bill Gates away"
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A poor workman blames his tools.
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Possible interpretation: to blame the tools for bad workmanship is an attempt to excuse one’s lack of skill.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Possible interpretation: What you have is worth more than what you dream about. (Bird is slang for a woman, so could apply to courtship)
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
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A night with Venus and a life with mercury.
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Anti-promiscurity adage, alluding to a 18th-century mercury-based folk treatment for syphilis
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Cited in Bartz, Diane, "Har, me hearties! Excavating Blackbeard’s ship", Reuters (via Yahoo! News), 30 October 2006. URL accessed on 2006-11-01.
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A cat may look at a king.
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Possible interpretation: If a cat may look at the king - then I have a right to look where I please.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
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Possible interpretation: The strength of any group depends on the individual strength of each of its members.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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Meaning: It is often safer to keep one’s mouth shut.
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A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once.
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From William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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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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blasco posted on Jan 25, 2007
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