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Proverbs

Time and tide wait for no man
Time cures all things
Time is money
Time is the great healer
Time works wonders
To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
To angle with a silver hook
To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
To be head over ears in debt
To be in one's birthday suit
To be up to the ears in love
To be wise behind the hand
To beat about the bush
To beat the air
To bring grist to somebody's mill
To build a fire under oneself
To buy a pig in a poke
To call a spade a spade
To call off the dogs
To carry coals to Newcastle
To cast pearls before swine
To cast prudence to the winds
To come away none the wiser
To come off cheap
To come off with a whole skin
To come off with flying colours
To come out dry
To come out with clean hands
To cook a hare before catching him
To cry with one eye and laugh with the other
To cut one's throat with a feather
To draw (pull) in one's horns
To draw water in a sieve
To drop a bucket into an empty well
To eat the calf in the cow's belly
To err is human
To fiddle while Rome is burning
To fight with one's own shadow
To find a mare's nest
To fish in troubled waters
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