Ensaboar a cabeça do asno, perda do sabão.To lather an ass’s head is a waste of soap.
Translation in the cited editionTradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
Read the saying and check its sourcesTo lather an ass’s head is a waste of soap.
Tradizione portoghese · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs · 1857
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- Henry G. Bohn · A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs (1857) · PORTUGUESE PROVERBS · paragrafo 281 · «Ensaboar a cabeça do asno, perda do sabão.»
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