Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Tumbleweed entered the mouth of the lying
camel.
Tumbleweed will not enter into the mouth
of the lying camel.
Turkeys, parrots, and hares don't know
what gratitude is.
Turn iron (or stone) into gold by the touch.
Turn it inside and out.
Turn of phrase.
Turn over a new leaf.
Turn the cake in the pan.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows
fall behind you.
Turn your tongue seven times before
speaking.
Turn yourself into a sheep and the wolves
will eat you.
Turnabout is fair play.
Turning the water to his own mill.
Twa Daughters, and a back-door, are three
stark thieves.
Twa fools in a house are a couple o'er mony.
Twa hungry meltiths makes the third a
glutton.
Twa wits are better than ane.
Twa wits is better nor ane.
Twa words maun gang to that bargain.
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a
rebellion.
Twenty years a child; twenty years running
wild; twenty years a mature man -- and
after that, praying.
Twin fools: one doubts nothing, the other
everything.
'Twixt the cup and the lip there's many a
slip.
'Twixt the spoon and the lip, the morsel may
slip.
'Twixt the word and the deed there's a long
step.
Two ants do not fail to pull one
grasshopper.
Two are better than one, and three than two.
Two are holy: a church and a sauna.
Two are the masters of one.
Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
Two bears don't live in one cave.
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Two bears in one cave will not end up well.
Two bigs will not go in one bag.
Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a
third swooped down and carried it off.
Two birds of prey do not keep each other
company.
Two blacks do not make a white.
Two boots make a pair.
Two boys are half a boy, and three boys are
no boy at all.
Two bulls do not live in the same shade.
Two burdens: to Moses water, to God the
world.
Two buttocks cannot avoid friction. (people
living together may have
misunderstandings)
Two buttocks cannot avoid hitting each
other. (Where people are living in close
proximity they can expect to have
friction.)
Two can play at that game.
Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
Two captains sink the ship.
Two captains will sink the ship.
Two cats and one mouse, two women in one
house, two dogs to one bone, will not
agree long.
Two cats can never be equal; one will
always be bigger than the other.
Two cats will not live together in one sack.
Two clocks don't run alike; two men don't
think alike.
Two cockerels cannot sleep in one cage.
Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse,
an old man and young wife, are always
in strife.
Two cocks in one yard do not agree.
Two coins in a purse make more noise than
a hundred.
Two communists lead three hundred
unaffiliated.
Two crocodiles cannot agree.
Two do not think the same thoughts
together.
Two dogs can kill a lion.
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.
Two dogs seldom agree over one bone.