Bien embarrassé celui qui tient la queue de la poële.He has enough to do who holds the handle of the frying-pan.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHe has enough to do who holds the handle of the frying-pan.
Tradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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- Henry G. Bohn · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (1857) · FRENCH PROVERBS · paragrafo 159 · «Bien embarrassé celui qui tient la queue de la poële.»
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