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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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BACHELORS' WIVES . Bachelors' wives and maids' children are always well taught.
BAD . Where bad's the best, naught must be the choice.
BAD COMPANY . Better be alone than in bad company.
BAD DAY . A bad day never hath a good night.
BAD MARKET . He that cannot abide a bad market deserves not a good one.
BAGPIPE . Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
BAGS . He is most loved that hath most bags.
BAIL . Be bail and pay for it.
BALANCE . The balance distinguishes not between gold and lead.
BALD HEAD . A bald head is soon shaven.
BANQUET . There's no great banquet but some fare ill.
BARBER . One barber shaves not so close but another finds work.
BARBER'S CHAIR . Like a barber's chair, fit for every buttock.
BARE FOOT . Better a bare foot than no foot at all.
BAREFOOTED . Barefooted men should not tread on thorns.
 
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Tenpins : n. A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.
 
Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston, published originally in 1880 in London by Whittaker & Co
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