Nul feu sans fumée.No fire without smoke.
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Chacun n’est pas aise qui danse.Not every one that dances is glad.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl porte le deuil de sa blanchisseuse.He wears the mourning of his washerwoman.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui ne se lasse pas, lasse l’adversité.He who does not tire, tires adversity.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa caque sent toujours le hareng.The cask always smells of the herring.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesNe meurs cheval, herbe te vient.Horse, don’t die yet, grass is coming.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuoique fol tarde, jour ne tarde.Though the fool waits, the day does not.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTout chemin mène à Rome.Every road leads to Rome.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAu dernier les os.For the last-comer the bones.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEntre deux selles le cul à terre.Between two stools the breech comes to the ground.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe bruit pend l’homme.Repute hangs a man.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA morceau restif éperon de vin.A restive morsel needs a spur of wine.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a si grand jour qui ne vienne pas a vêpres.No day so long but has its evening.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSi nous payons la musique, nous voulons aussi danser.If we pay for the music we will join in the dance.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToutes têtes ne sont pas coffres à raison.All heads are not sense-boxes.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesTirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat.To take the chesnuts out of the fire with the cat’s paw.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est secret que de rien dire.The only way to keep a secret is to say nothing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToujours pêche qui en prend un.He fishes on who catches one.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLaissez le moustier où il est.Leave the minster where it is.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn n’a jamais bon marché d’une mauvaise marchandise.Bad ware is never cheap.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCelui est homme de bien qui est homme de biens.A good man is a man of goods.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut engin que force.Contrivance is better than force.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn barbier en rase un autre.One barber shaves another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLe mortier sent toujours les aulx.The mortar always smells of the garlic.
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