Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Like a deaf man in a parade.
Like a fence, character cannot be
strengthened by whitewash.
Like a fish in water.
Like a fish out of water.
Like a fish, one should look for a hole in the
net.
Like a gold ring in a pigs snout is a woman
without descretion.
Like a millstone dressed in a kimono.
Like a monkey who eats belacaan.
Like a parakeet that says what he knows but
doesn't know what he says.
Like a person, even the moon grows and
vanishes in a transitional process.
Like a snail on a barrel of tar.
Like a thunderstroke from a clear sky.
Like an Irish wolf she barks at her own
shadow.
Like an ostrich: cannot fly and cannot bear
burdens.
Like ants gnawing at a bone.
Like bamboo shoots after rain.
Like Banbury tinkers that in mending one
hole make three.
Like Barnard, he tries to catch the heavens
stone.
Like blood, like good, and like age, make the
happiest marriage.
Like blood, like means, and like age, make
the happiest marriage.
Like box-makers, more noise than work.
Like breeds like.
Like counsellor, like counsel.
Like cures like.
Like draws aye to like.Abr
Like draws to like, a skabbed Horse to an
old dyke.
Like father, like son.
Like father, like son; like mother, like
daughter
Like feathers, words are blown away by the
wind.
Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son.
Like greeting, on arrival, like answer.
Like king, like law; like law, like people.
Like king, like people.
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Like lavender, grow sweeter as you grow
older.
Like likes like.
Like lips, like lettuce.
Like master like dog.
Like master, like man.
Like mistress, like maid.
Like mother, like daughter.
Like Mrs Bodo he talks about something else
when asked to pay for the wine.
Like neither a donkey nor a horse.
Like plays best with like.
Like pot, like cover.
Like priest, like church.
Like priest, like people.
Like prince, like people.
Like question, like answer.
Like saint like incense.
Like saint, like offering.
Like seeks like--a scabbed horse and a sandy
dike.
Like soap for the body so are tears for the
soul.
Like someone trying to capture water in his
fist.
Like the body that is made up of different
limbs and organs, all moral creatures
must depend on each other to exist.
Like the body that is made up of different
limbs and organs, all mortal creatures
exist depending upon one another.
Like the cat in the tree, getting caught up in
the chase can leave us in an awkward
place.
Like the chameleon, one eye on the future,
one eye on the past.
Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats
cabbages himself, nor lets anybody else.
Like the herb plucked on Sunday, it does
neither good nor ill.
Like the man who shields himself with a
spiders home.
Like the marriage feast of Mapassa.
Like the migrating Maruiwi, who all
disappeared into the world of spirits
Dead like the moa.