English Proverbs A-B |
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1. _______ will happen in the best-regulated families. Answer: Accidents 2. Adam's _______ is the best brew. Answer: ale 3. Advice when most needed is least _______. Answer: heeded
4. After the storm comes the _______. Answer: calm 5. All's fair in _______ and war. Answer: love 6. All's _______ that comes to the net. Answer: fish 7. All lay loads on a willing _______. Answer: horse 8. All roads lead to _______. Answer: Rome 9. Any port in a _______. Answer: storm 10. Appearances are _______. Answer: deceptive 11. The apples on the other side of the wall are the _______. Answer: sweetest 12. As well be hanged for a _______ as a lamb. Answer: sheep 13. Avoid a _______, for he is also a tattler. Answer: questioner 14. A bad penny always comes _______. Answer: back 15. A bad shearer never had a good _______. Answer: sickle 16. The _______ hides the hook. Answer: bait 17. Be _______ before you are generous. Answer: just 18. The beaten road is the _______. Answer: safest 19. Beauty is in the eye of the _______. Answer: beholder 20. The best is often the _______ of the good. Answer: enemy 21. Better be a _______ than a knave. Answer: fool 22. Better be an old man's _______ than a young man's slave. Answer: darling 23. Better the _______ you know than the devil you don't know. Answer: devil 24. Better to ask the way than go _______. Answer: astray 25. _______ two stools you fall to the ground. Answer: Between 26. The _______ is sometimes bit. Answer: biter 27. Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be _______. Answer: disappointed 28. Bread is the _______ of life. Answer: staff 29. Brevity is the _______ of wit. Answer: soul 30. The bull must be taken by the _______. Answer: horns 31. A bully is always a _______. Answer: coward 32. Burn not your house to fright the _______ away. Answer: mouse
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