Great Throughts Treasury

"He makes the hare spring out of the bush."

"He may eat it or not, he won?t get anything else."

"He may go to the salt-office."

"He names a rope in the house of a man that was hanged."

"He owed the devil a journey."

"He moves all the stones, to achieve something."

"He plays with open cards."

"He plays with somebody as a cat plays with a mouse."

"He preaches water and drinks wine."

"He pulls the honeyed string before him or before his nose."

"He pours oil on the fire."

"He puts his hand into a wasp's nest."

"He puts on the right/wrong horse."

"He puts out the eye of somebody with something."

"He reads between the lines."

"He removes the baptismal water from somebody."

"He reckons without his host."

"He respects neither God, nor man."

"He released the spirit from the bottle."

"He rushes into the houses together with the door."

"He refused to carry on in a leading position."

"He seeks a knot even on the rush."

"He sees the mote in others' eyes but not the beam in his own."

"He seizes the lighter end of the matter."

"He sews the jacket to the button."

"He stumbled upwards."

"He shouts snake and frog at somebody."

"He shoots at sparrows with a, high calibre, gun."

"He stands the mud."

"He stands there like a donkey on the hill."

"He shaves a bald head."

"He shows the whiteness of his teeth."

"He sings the same old song."

"He sticks out of the line."

"He stares at the new gate as a calf."

"He swallows the frog."

"He takes over the baton."

"He takes other's small flaw seriously, while ignores his own big mistakes."

"He takes the wind out of someone's sails."

"He tells, does something to somebody without announcement."

"He that does not work, shall not eat either."

"He sweeps the problem under the carpet."

"He swallows the bitter pill."

"He talks a hole into the belly of somebody."

"He talks one's head off."

"He that lies also steals."

"He that is not a master of something, is a butcher of it."

"He that says a, should also say b."

"He that hurries will be late."

"He that seeks, finds."