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A bit of the proverbial
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linguaphiles community.
Proverbs
Reduce these sentences to familar proverbs.
- A period of pre-eminence is passed through by each and every canine.
- It is fruitless to become lachrymose because of scattered lacteal fluid.
- Articles which coruscate are not fashioned from aureate metal, at least not necessarily.
- Prodigality is produced by precipitancy.
- Pulchritude does not penetrate the dermal layer.
- It is not proper for mendicants to be indicative of preferences.
- The number of your immature gallinaceans must not be calculated prior to their being produced.
- A perissodactyl ungulate mammal may be addressed toward aqueous fluid but cannot be compelled to partake thereof.
- It is fondness for notes of exchange that constitutes the tuberous structure of all satanically-inspired principles.
- Lithoidal fragments ought not to be hurled by tenants of vitreous abodes.
- A beholden vessel never exceeds one hundred degrees Celsius.
- A feathered creature clasped in the manual members is the equivalent value of a brace in the bosky growth.
- A detached fragment of the terrestrial lithosphere, whether of igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic origin, and whether acquiring its approximation of sphericity through hydraulic action or other attrition, when continuously maintained in motion about its temporary axis and with its velocity accelerated by an increase in the angle of declivity, is, because of abrasive action produced by the incessant but irregular contact between its periphery and the contiguous terrain, effectively prevented from accumulating on its external surface an appreciable amount of the cryptogamous vegetation normally propagated in umbrageous situations under optimum conditions of undeviating atmospheric humidity, quiescence and comparative sequestration from corrosive-erosive agencies.
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2. It's no use crying over spilt milk.
3. Not all that glitters is gold.
4. Haste makes waste. (but I had to look up the wordy words)
5. Beauty is only skin deep. (So that's what pulchritude means. My father keeps using the word and never explaining it)
6. Beggars can't be choosers.
7. Don't count your chickens before they've hatched.
8. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
9. The love of money is the root of all evil.
10. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
11. A watched pot never boils.
12. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
13. A rolling stone gathers no moss. (The most amusing one of all.)
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Though I think number 3 is "All that glitters is not gold" though I heard somewhere that it's meant to be 'glisters'.
I knew the wordy words in number 4 but didn't know the proverb. I've never used 'pulchritude' though I know its meaning. It's surprising how many words I know but have never said out loud--and am never likely to. How does your father use it--jokingly?
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Well, about on the same level as the above proverbs, really.
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Yes it is, it's a quote from Shakespear's the Merchant of Venice.
All that Glisters is not gold
O'ft times have you heard that told
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Mrs Jenkins was a marvelous Eng Lit teacher I remembered that 40 years on thanks to her.
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Perform a risk assessment before bungying.
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ubi = where?
sub = under
His mum always said so anyway. ;-)