John Heywood Definition
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all thumbsfrom John Heywood's Collection of 1546. [edit] Adjective. all thumbs ... Russian: руки как крюки (hands like hooks), руки из жопы растут (hands grow from arse) ...
all cats are grey in the dark
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, explaining why to take an older woman to bed[1], but appears in John Heywood's book of proverbs (1546) as 'When ...
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
From earlier given horse: "No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth." —John Heywood, 1546. Horses' gums recede as they age making the teeth ...
tounge
1380, John Wyclif, English works (1880 edition by the Early English Text Society) ... 1562, John Heywood, Woorkes. A dialogue conteynyng prouerbes and ...
the shoemaker's children go barefoot
One often neglects those closest to oneself. [edit] Related terms ... John Heywood (1497?–1580?), Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi., #147. Robert Burton (1577–1640) ...
lever
1530, John Heywood, The Four PP. for I had lever be without ye / Then ... would have wist how that it stood —Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower. ...
laugh
Heywood's Prov. (intransitive, figuratively) To be or appear cheerful, ... John Dryden (Can we date this quote?) In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy. ...
snapperhead
snapper + head, possibly a reference to the appearance of snapper's heads frequently used ... or, Christopher Cockle's colonial experience, John Richard Howlding, page 377 [1] ...
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