A chair de loup sauce de chien.For wolf’s flesh dog sauce.
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Courte messe et long dîner.A short mass and a long dinner.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA petite achoison le loup prend le mouton.Upon a slight pretext the wolf takes the sheep.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn homme qui se noie s’attache à un brin d’herbe.A drowning man clings to a blade of grass.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe n’est rien, c’est une femme qui se noye.It is nothing at all, only a woman drowning.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesJamais chat emmitouflé ne prit souris.A muffled cat never caught a mouse.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLeurs chiens ne chassent point ensemble.Their dogs don’t hunt in couples.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAmour et seigneurie ne veulent point de compagnie.Love and lordship like no fellowship.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSigner pour les deux parties.To sign for both parties.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn clou chasse l’autre.One nail drives out another.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPromettre et tenir sont deux.Promising and performing are two things.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa fête passée, adieu le saint.The saint’s-day over, farewell the saint.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVoler un voleur n’est pas voler.To rob a robber is not robbing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesEnnemi ne s’endort.An enemy does not sleep.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui donner peut, il a maint bon voisin.He who can give has many a good neighbour.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesVentre plein conseille bien.A full belly counsels well.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMontrer le soleil avec un flambeau.To show the sun with a torch.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSoleil qui luisarne au matin, femme qui parle latin, enfant nourri de vin, ne viennent point à bonne fin.A glaring sunny morning, a woman that talks Latin, and a child reared on wine, never come to a good end.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAisé à dire est difficile à faire.Easy to say is hard to do.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne connaît point le vin aux cercles.The wine is not known by the hoops.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLes premiers vont devant.First come first served.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToute eau éteint feu.Any water puts out fire.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesCe que moine pense, il ose le faire.What a monk thinks he dares to do.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPorte fermée, le diable s’en va.When the devil finds the door shut he goes away.
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