Matching Proverbs English

1. Practise ... but you can’t make it drink.

2. Don’t judge a book ... is better than none.
3. Strike while ... you leap.
4. The proof of the pudding ... new tricks.
5. Birds of a feather ... is the best teacher.
6. Once bitten ... is in the eating.
7. Experience ... flock together.
8. You can’t teach an old dog ... lie.
9. Let sleeping dogs ... what you preach.
10. Look before ... the iron is hot.
11. You can lead a horse to water ... twice shy.
12. Half a loaf ... by its cover.

13. A bird in the hand ... saves nine.

14. A stitch in time ... is worth two in the bush
15. Too many cooks ... and speech is silver.
16. Silence is golden ... spoil the broth.
17. Many hands ... than sorry.
18. Better safe ... make light work.
19. Absence makes ... before they hatch.
20. Don’t count your chickens ... the heart grow fonder.
21. Every cloud ... is not gold.
22. All that glitters ... has a silver lining.
23. The early bird ... there’s a way.
24. Where there’s a will ... catches the worm.

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25. A fool and his money ... make the most noise.
26. Empty vessels ... are soon parted.
27. There is no point crying ... shouldn’t throw stones.
28. People who live in glass houses ... gathers no moss.
29. A rolling stone ... is another man’s poison.
30. One man’s meat ... over spilt milk.
31. Make hay ... doesn’t make a summer.
32. One swallow ... while the sun shines.
33. When in Rome ... without fire.
34. There’s no smoke … do as the Romans do.
35. Better late ... before the horse.
36. Don’t put the cart ... than never.

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