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PROVERB- Call a spade a spade.
- A cat has nine lives.
- A cat may look at a king.
- Catch your bear before you sell its skin.
- Charity begins at home.
- The child is father of the man.
- Children should be seen and not heard.
- Christmas comes but once a year.
- Cleanliness is next to godliness.
- Clothes do not make the man.
- Constant dripping wears away the stone.
- A constant guest is never welcome.
- Courtesy costs nothing.
- Cowards die many times before their deaths.
- Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
- Cut your coat according to your cloth.
- Deeds, not words.
- The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
- The devil is not so black as he is painted.
- Diamond cut diamond.
- Do as I say, not as I do.
- Do as most men do, then most men will speak well of you.
- Don't change horses in mid-stream.
- Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
- Don't cross a bridge till you come to it.
- Don't cry before you are hurt.
- Don't cut the bough you are standing on.
- Don't empty the baby out with the bath water.
- Do not kick against the pricks.
- Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.
- Don't make a rod for your own back.
- Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.
- Don't pour out the dirty water before you have clean.
- Do not put all your eggs in the same basket.
- Do not put new wine into old bottles.
- Don't put the cart before the horse.
- Don't tell tales out of school.
- Do not wash your dirty linen in public.
- A door must be either shut or open.
- A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
- A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the farther of the two.
- Call no man happy till he is dead.
- Care killed a cat.
- Cast not the first stone.
- Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.
- Caveat emptor.
- Charity covers a multitude of sins.
- Circumstances alter cases.
- Coming events cast their shadows before.
- Comparisons are odious.
- Conscience does make cowards of us all.
- A contented mind is a perpetual feast.
- The course of true love never did run smooth.
- The cowl does not make the monk.
- A creaking gate hangs long.
- Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
- Custom makes all things easy.
- Custom reconciles us to everything.
- The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
- Dead men tell no tales.
- Death is the great leveller.
- Desires are nourished by delays.
- Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- The devil take the hindmost.
- Discontent is the first step in progress.
- Discretion is the better part of valour.
- Distance lends enchantment to the view.
- Do as you would be done by.
- Do not cast your pearls before swine.
- Dog does not eat dog.
- Don't cry stinking fish.
- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
- Do not halloo till you are out of the woods.
- Don't have too many irons in the fire.
- Don't meet trouble half-way.
- Do not quarrel with your bread and butter.
- Don't ride the high horse.
- Don't speak to the man at the wheel.
- Don't take your harp to the party.
- Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
- Do not wear out your welcome.
- Dying is as natural as living.
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