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You cannot teach an old dog new tricks
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You can’t teach an old dog new tricks
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While dog gnaws bone, companions would be none
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Three things are not to be trusted: a cow’s horn, a dog’s tooth, and a horse’s hoof
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They lead a cat-and-dog life
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We may not expect a good whelp from an ill dog
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Want a pretence to whip a dog, say that he ate the frying-pan
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Two dogs over one bone seldom agree
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Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs away with it
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Trust not a horse’s heel nor a dog’s tooth
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Too much pudding will choke a dog
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To call off the dogs
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The silent dog bites first
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The scalded dog fears cold water
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The mad dog bites his master
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The dog in the manger won’t eat the oats nor let anyone else eat them
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Take a hair of the dog that bit you
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Many dogs soon eat up a horse
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One barking dog sets all the street a barking
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Never was cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore
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Never trust a sleeping dog, a swearing Jew, a praying drunkard, or a weeping woman
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To teach the dog to bark
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dog’s foot
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When the old dog barks, he giveth counsel
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Like the gardner’s dog, that neither eats cabbage himself, nor lets anybody else
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He that’s resolved to beat a dog, never wants long a stick
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He who lies down with dogs will rise with fleas
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If you would wish the dog to follow you, feed him
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Cut off a dog’s tail and he will be a dog still
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Dog eats dog
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Dog that is idle barks at his fleas, but he that is hunting feels them not
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Dogs bark as they are bred
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Dogs that bark at distance bite not at hand
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Dogs wag their tails no so much to you as your bread
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Don’t teach the dog to bark
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