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English Proverbs
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Down
1. The root of all evil.

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2. Make this while the sun shines.

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3. These hands make light work.

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4. What broke the camel's back.

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7. A watched pot never does this.

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6. Don't cry over this kind of milk.

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8. What you can't teach an old

dog.
9. What practice makes.

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13. You should do this before you

leap.
17. How many it takes to quarrel.

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18. How the grass looks on the

other side of the fence.
20. Two wrongs don't make this.

Across
1. Don't make a mountain out of this.

21. You shouldn't put all your eggs in one.

21. Who leads the blind.

5. What the best policy is.

22. Absence makes the heart grow this

way.

23. Don't count these before they

hatch.

24. This is better than cure.

24. What happens to a fool and his

money.

9. What the mice do when the cat's away.

10. What every dog has: its _________.
11. Blood is thicker than this.
12. A bad workman blames these.
14. Where you land when you jump out of
the frying pan.

25. You can't make a horse do this.

26. This was not built in a day.
27. What the pot calls the kettle.
28. Birds of a feather do this together.

15. What you should do when the iron is

hot.

31. Great minds think this way.

16. What too many cooks spoil.

34. What a leopard cannot change.

18. No news is this kind of news.

35. A bird in this place is worth two in the

bush.

19. You shouldn't judge a book by this.

32. What haste makes.

27. What is in the eye of the

beholder.
29. Two heads are better than this.
30. This is stranger than fiction.
32. Actions speak louder than
these.
33. There is more than one way to
do this to a cat.

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