Archivo:Pieter Brueghel el Viejo - Los proverbios holandeses - Proyecto de arte de Google.jpg
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English: To even be able to tie the devil to a pillow — Obstinacy overcomes everything.
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English: To be a pillar-biter — To be a religious hypocrite.
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English: To carry fire in one hand and water in the other — To be two-faced and to stir up trouble.
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English: To bang one's head against a brick wall — To try to achieve the impossible.
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English: One foot shod, the other bare — Balance is paramount.
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English: The sow pulls the bung — Negligence will be rewarded with disaster.
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English: To bell the cat — To be indiscreet about plans that should be secret.
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English: To be armed to the teeth — To be heavily armed.
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English: To be an iron-biter — To be boastful / indiscreet.
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English: One shears sheep, the other shears pigs — One has all the advantages, the other none.
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English: Shear them but do not skin them — Do not press your advantage too far.
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English: The herring does not fry here — Things do not go according to plan.
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English: To fry the whole herring for the sake of the roe — To do too much to achieve a little.
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English: To get the lid on the head — To end up taking responsibility.
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English: The herring hangs by its own gills — You must accept responsibility for your own actions.
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English: There is more in it than an empty herring — There is more to it than meets the eye.
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English: What can smoke do to iron? — There is no point in trying to change the unchangeable.
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English: To find the dog in the pot — To arrive too late for dinner and find all the food has been eaten.
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English: To sit between two stools in the ashes — To be indecisive
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English: To be a hen feeler — To count one's chickens before they hatch.
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English: The scissors hang out there — They are liable to cheat you there.
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English: To always gnaw on a single bone — To continually talk about the same subject.
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English: It depends on the fall of the cards — It is up to chance
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English: The world is turned upside down — Everything is the opposite of what it should be.
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English: Leave at least one egg in the nest — Always have something in reserve.
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English: To shit on the world — To despise everything
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English: To lead each other by the nose — To fool each other
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English: The dice has been cast — The decision is made
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English: Fools get the best cards — Luck can overcome intelligence.
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English: To look through one's fingers — To be indulgent.
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English: There hangs the knife — To issue a challenge.
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English: There stand the wooden shoes — To wait in vain
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English: To stick out the broom — To have fun while the master is away
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English: To marry under the broomstick — To live together without marrying.
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English: To have the roof tiled with tarts — To be very wealthy
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English: To have a hole in one's roof — To be unintelligent.
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English: An old roof needs a lot of patching up — Old things need more maintenance.
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English: The roof has lathes — There could be eavesdroppers (The walls have ears)
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English: To have toothache behind the ears — To be a malingerer
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English: To be pissing against the moon — To waste one's time on a futile endeavour.
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English: Here hangs the pot — It is the opposite of what it should be
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English: To shoot a second bolt to find the first — To repeat a foolish action. To shoot all his bolts — To act too fast.
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English: To shave the fool without lather — To trick somebody.
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English: Two fools under one hood — Stupidity loves company.
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English: It grows out of the window — It cannot be concealed.
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English: To play on the pillory — To attract attention to one's shameful acts.
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English: Where the gate is open the pigs will run into the corn — Disaster ensues from carelessness.
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English: Where the corn decreases the pig increases — If one person gains then another must lose.
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English: To run like one's backside is on fire — To be in great distress.
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English: He who eats fire, shits sparks — Do not be surprised at the outcome if you attempt a dangerous venture.
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English: To hang one's cloak according to the wind — To adapt one's viewpoint to the current opinion.
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English: To toss feathers in the wind — To work fruitlessly.
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English: To gaze at the stork — To waste one's time
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English: To want to kill two flies with one stroke — To be efficient (equivalent to today's To kill two birds with one stone)
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English: To fall from the ox onto the ass — To fall on hard times.
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English: To kiss the ring of the door — To be polite beyond credibility.
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English: To wipe one's backside on the door — To treat something lightly.
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English: To go around shouldering a burden — To imagine that things are worse than they are. Putting his shoulders under it — Putting your back into it.
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English: One beggar pities the other standing in front of the door — Fearing competition.
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English: To fish behind the net — To miss an opportunity
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English: Big fish eat little fish — The rich and powerful enrich themselves at the cost of the poor.
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English: To be unable to see the sun shine on the water — To be jealous of another's success
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English: It hangs like a privy over a ditch — It is obvious.
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English: Anybody can see through an oak plank if there is a hole in it — There is no point in stating the obvious.
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English: They both shit through the same hole — They are in agreement.
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English: To throw one's money into the water — To waste one's money
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English: A wall with cracks will soon collapse — Anything poorly managed will soon fail.
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English: To not care whose house is on fire as long as one can warm oneself at the blaze — To take every opportunity regardless of the consequences to others
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English: To drag the block — To be deceived by a lover or to work at a pointless task
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English: Fear makes the old woman trot — An unexpected event can reveal unknown qualities
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English: Horse droppings are not figs — Do not be fooled by appearances.
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English: If the blind lead the blind, both will fall in the ditch — There is no point in being guided by others who are equally ignorant
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English: The journey is not yet over when one can discern the church and steeple — Do not give up until the task is fully complete
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English: Everything, however finely spun, will come to the sun — Nothing can be hidden forever.
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English: To keep one's eye on the sail — To stay alert, be wary
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English: To shit on the gallows — To be undeterred by any penalty.
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English: Where the carcass is, there fly the crows — If the evidence points to something it is likely to be true.
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English: It is easy to sail before the wind — If conditions are favourable it is not difficult to achieve one's goal.
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English: Who knows why geese go barefoot? — There is a reason for everything, though it may not be obvious.
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English: If I am not meant to be their keeper, I will let geese be geese — Do not interfere in matters that are not your concern.
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English: To see bears dancing — To be starving.
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English: Wild bears prefer each other's company — Peers get along better with each other than with outsiders.
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English: To throw one's cowl over the fence — 1: Quiting your job. 2: Leaving.
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English: It is ill to swim against the stream — It is difficult to oppose the general opinion
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English: The pitcher goes to the water until it finally breaks — 1: Everything has its limitations. 2: Who doesn't take good advice, will suffer the consequences sooner or later.
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English: The best straps are cut from somebody else's leather — Men cut the largest straps from other men's leather / It is easy to take from others work.
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English: To hold an eel by the tail — To undertake a difficult task.
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English: To fall through the basket — To have your deception uncovered
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English: To be suspended between heaven and earth — To be in an awkward/difficult situation
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English: To take the hen's egg and let the goose's egg go — To make a bad decision.
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English: To yawn against the oven — To attempt more than one can manage.
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English: To be barely able to reach from one loaf to another — To have difficulty living within budget.
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English: A hoe without a handle — Something useless.
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English: To look for the hatchet — To try to find an excuse
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English: To cast his light on it — Making something clear (usually by someone with knowhow). A big lantern with a small light — Talking a lot, but not knowing a lot about it. To search for with a lantern — Difficult to find.
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English: Throwing the hatchet to its handle — Completely abandoning something.
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English: He who has spilt his porridge cannot scrape it all up again — Damage can never completely be undone.
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English: To put a spoke in someone's wheel — To put up an obstacle, to destroy someone's plans.
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English: Love is on the side where the money bag hangs — Love can be bought
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English: To pull to get the longest end — To attempt to get the advantage
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English: To stand in one's own light — To be proud of oneself.
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English: No one looks for others in the oven who has not been in there himself — To imagine wickedness in others is a sign of wickedness in oneself.
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English: To have the world spinning on one's thumb — To have every advantage.
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English: To tie a flaxen beard to the face of God — To hide deceit under a veneer of Christian piety.
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English: To have to stoop to get on in the world — To succeed one must be devious.
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English: To cast roses before swine — To waste effort on the unworthy.
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English: To fill the well after the calf has drowned — To take action only after a disaster
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English: To be as tame as a lamb — To be very obedient
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English: She puts the blue cloak on her husband — She deceives/cheats on him.
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English: Watch out that a black dog does not come in between — When two women are together a barking dog is not needed to add to the trouble they will cause.
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English: One winds on the distaff what the other spins — Both spread gossip
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English: To carry the day out in baskets — To waste one's time
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English: To hold a candle to the Devil — To flatter and make friends indiscriminately
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English: To confess to the Devil — To reveal secrets to one's enemy.
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English: The pig is stabbed through the belly — 1: By powerful action the difficulties have been cleared out of the way. 2: It has been rigged, it's a hoax, it's been arranged in advance.
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English: Two dogs over one bone seldom agree — To argue passionately over a single point
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English: To be a skimming ladle — To be a parasite or sponger.
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English: What is the good of a beautiful plate when there is nothing on it? — Beauty does not make up for substance.
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English: The fox and the crane entertain each other — Two deceivers always keep their own advantage in mind.
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English: To blow in the ear — To spread (bad) gossip.
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English: To be chalked up at someone's — Owing something to someone.
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English: The meat on the spit must be basted — Certain things need constant attention.
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English: There is no turning the spit with him — He is uncooperative.
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English: To sit on hot coals — To be impatient
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English: To catch fish with your hands — To profit from the work of others
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English: A double-talker will undertake nothing without singing with a double mouth - hypocrisy cannot be hidden
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English: To pull something through the eye of the scissors — Keeping materials from work for yourself. / Gaining material in an unfair way.
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