Qui ne peut mordre, ne doit pas montrer les dents.Don’t show your teeth if you can’t bite.
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Bien est larron qui larron dérobe.He is a thief indeed who robs a thief.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl est bon d’avoir des amis partout.It is good to have friends in all parts.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesLa langue va où la dent fait mal.The tongue goes to where the tooth aches.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y eut jamais bon marché de peaux de lions.Lion-skins were never had cheap.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDerrière la croix souvent se tient le diable.The devil often lurks behind the cross.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’est banquet que d’homme chiche.No feast like a miser’s.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesA toile ourdie Dieu envoie le fil.For a web begun God sends thread.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesAutant pèche celui qui tient le sac que celui qui met dedans.He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl y a des hochets pour tous les ages.There are toys for all ages.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesToutes les clefs ne pendent pas à une ceinture.All the keys don’t hang at one girdle.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesHomme chiche jamais riche.A stingy man is always poor.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui tient le fil, tient le peloton.He who holds the thread holds the ball.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesSon cheval a la tête trop grosse, il ne peut sortir de l’écurie.His horse’s head is too big, it cannot get out of the stable.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesUn brochet fait plus qu’une lettre de recommandation.A jackfish does more than a letter of recommendation.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesChou pour chou.Cabbage for cabbage.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesDe maigre poil âpre morsure.A gaunt brute bites sore.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesPrès du moustier à messe le dernier.The nearer the minster the later to mass.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesOn ne peut pas empêcher le vent de venter.One can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesMieux vaut une once de fortune qu’une livre de sagesse.An ounce of luck is worth a pound of wisdom.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQuand la cage est faite l’oiseau s’envole.When the cage is ready the bird is flown.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesQui se remue, Dieu l’adjue.God helps him who helps himself.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesRaison contre le fort est un trepiteux port.Reason not with the great, ’tis a perilous gate.
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Read the saying and check its sourcesIl n’y a si bonne compagnie qui ne se quitte, comme disait le roi Dagobert à ses chiens.The best company must part, as King Dagobert said to his hounds.
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