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12 Mar 2025, 7:18 pm

Example: "He who thinks by the inch and speaks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot"

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12 Mar 2025, 8:32 pm

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12 Mar 2025, 10:51 pm

I don't understand proverbs. I guess that's the Schultz in me.

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13 Mar 2025, 5:40 pm

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25 Apr 2025, 1:38 pm

Oh I love a good proverb me

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15 May 2025, 11:32 am

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15 May 2025, 11:44 am

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

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15 May 2025, 3:15 pm

https://culture.pl/en/article/the-etern ... h-proverbs

Here you can find many great proverbs from my homeland

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15 May 2025, 3:21 pm

Teach not your grandmother to suck eggs.

That one had me puzzled for years. It's bonkers till you know what it means.

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15 May 2025, 3:24 pm

Eggs is how we, Poles, call testicles - you call them balls but we call them eggs so to me, a Pole, the grandmother proverb is really funny in its frivolous way :lol:

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15 May 2025, 3:26 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:

Teach not your grandmother to suck eggs.

That one had me puzzled for years. It's bonkers till you know what it means.

I just watched a video about how common losing teeth was in the olden days.

It must suck to be left sucking eggs.

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15 May 2025, 3:52 pm

"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it".

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15 May 2025, 5:19 pm

From the back of a matchbox in the days when the back of a matchbox wasn't marketing hype:
"It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same"

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