Qui ne retire de sa vache que la queue, ne perd pas tout.He who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesHe who recovers but the tail of his cow does not lose all.
Tradizione francese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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- Henry G. Bohn · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (1857) · FRENCH PROVERBS · paragrafo 1035 · «Qui ne retire de sa vache que la queue, ne perd pas tout.»
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