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English phrases popularly known as representations of common sense.
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- Caesar's wife must be above suspicion
- cannot live with them, cannot live without them
- can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
- can't live with them, can't live without them
- can't live with them and can't live without them
- care killed a cat
- care killed the cat
- carpe diem
- carpe diem cras
- cast not a clout till May be out
- cats rule, dogs drool
- cats rule; dogs drool
- caveat lector
- charity begins at home
- cheaters never prosper
- cheats never prosper
- chicks before dicks
- children should be seen and not heard
- Christmas comes but once a year
- claret would be port if it could
- claw me, claw thee
- cleanliness is next to godliness
- clogs to clogs in three generations
- close only counts in horseshoes
- close only counts in horseshoes and darts
- close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
- clothes don't make the man
- clothes maketh the man
- cobbler, keep to your last
- cold hands, warm heart
- comparison is the thief of joy
- cooler heads must prevail
- cooler heads prevail
- cooler heads will prevail
- cool heads must prevail
- cool heads prevail
- cool heads will prevail
- crime doesn't pay
- cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye
- curiosity killed the cat
- curses, like chickens, come home to roost
D
- dance with the one that brought ya
- dance with the one that brought you
- dance with the one that brung ya
- dance with the one that brung you
- dance with the one what brought ya
- dance with the one what brought you
- dance with the one what brung ya
- dance with the one what brung you
- dance with the one who brought ya
- dance with the one who brought you
- dance with the one who brung ya
- dance with the one who brung you
- dead men can tell no tales
- dead men tell no tales
- death is the great leveller
- desperate times call for desperate measures
- desperate times require desperate measures
- devil lies in the details
- diamonds are a girl's best friend
- dicks before chicks
- different clowns, same circus
- different strokes for different folks
- discretion is the better part of valor
- discretion is the better part of valour
- divide and conquer
- do as I say, not as I do
- do as I say and not as I do
- doctors make the worst patients
- does Macy's tell Gimbel's
- dogs have masters, cats have staff
- dogs have owners, cats have staff
- don't buy green bananas
- don't change a winning team
- don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched
- don't count your chickens before they're hatched
- don't cry over spilled milk
- don't dip your pen in company ink
- don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
- don't drop the soap
- don't fight the tape
- don't fish off the company dock
- don't get above your raising
- don't get mad, get even
- don't get your honey where you make your money
- don't get your hopes up
- don't get your meat where you get your bread
- don't hate the player, hate the game
- don't judge a book by its cover
- don't keep a dog and bark yourself
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- don't mess with success
- don't put all your eggs in one basket
- don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear
- don't shit in your own nest
- don't shit where you eat
- don't shoot the messenger
- don't sweat the small stuff
- don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
- don't teach your grandmother to steal sheep
- don't try to teach grandma how to suck eggs
- do unto others as you would have them do unto you
- do what I say, not what I do
- dripping water hollows a stone
- drive for show, putt for dough
- drunk words are sober thoughts
E
- each to his own
- early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- eat, drink and be merry
- eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
- eaten bread is soon forgotten
- eat to live, not live to eat
- ECREE
- empty barrels make the most noise
- empty cans make the most noise
- empty vessels make the most noise
- empty vessels make the most sound
- enough is as good as a feast
- e pluribus unum
- est modus in rebus
- even a blind pig can find an acorn
- even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
- even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
- even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then
- even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
- even a broken clock is right twice a day
- even a stopped clock is right twice a day
- even a worm will turn
- even Homer nods
- even Jove nods
- every cloud has a silver lining
- every dark cloud has a silver lining
- every day is a school day
- every dog has his day
- every dog has its day
- every dog must have his day
- every dog must have its day
- every Jack has his Jill
- every law has a loophole
- every law has its loophole
- every little bit helps
- every little helps
- every man has a price
- every man has his price
- every man is the architect of his own fortune
- every miller draws water to his own mill
- every rose has a thorn
- every rose has its thorn
- every rule has an exception
- every shut eye isn't asleep
- every silver lining has a cloud
- every stick has two ends
- everything happens for a reason
- everything old is new again
- evil be to him who evil thinks
- experience is the best teacher
- extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
F
- fact is stranger than fiction
- facts don't care about your feelings
- facts speak louder than words
- failure is the best teacher
- failure to prepare is preparing to fail
- faint heart never won fair lady
- fair exchange is no robbery
- faith will move mountains
- fall seven times, stand up eight
- familiarity breeds contempt
- fat is flavor
- fat is flavour
- feed a cold, starve a fever
- finders, keepers
- finders, keepers; losers, weepers
- fine feathers make fine birds
- fine words butter no parsnips
- fingers were made before forks
- fire is a good servant but a bad master
- first catch your hare
- fish and company stink after three days
- fool me once
- fool me once, shame on you
- fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
- fools rush in where angels fear to tread
- forbidden fruit is the sweetest
- forewarned, forearmed
- forewarned is forearmed
- fortune favors the bold
- fortune favors the brave
- fortune favors the daring
- fortune favours the bold
- fortune favours the brave
- fortune favours the daring
- freedom ain't free
- freedom is not free
- freedom isn't free
- freedom's not free