71 Proverbs about Roast / Page 2
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A cat that licks the spit is not to be trusted with roast meat.22.
Great smoke, little roast.23.
Many a one leaves the roast who afterwards longs for the smoke of it.24.
Much smoke, and little roast.25.
A man must keep his mouth open a long while before a roast pigeon files into it.26.
It is a poor roast that gives no dripping.27.
When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe to the master's wine-cask.28.
There is no feast till a roast and no torment till a marriage.29.
A peasant will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with his mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.30.
We are not roasting, and already we are basting.31.
We are not yet roasting, and already we make sops in the pan.32.
He expects that larks will fall ready roasted into his mouth.33.
When the kitchenmaids are together the roast burns.34.
If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.35.
The tears of the roasting meat kindle the fire even more.36.
He gives him roast meat and beats him with the spit.37.
A roast pigeon will not fly into one's mouth.38.
There is reason in the roasting of eggs.39.
Do not roast baobab kernels and leave those who have teeth chewing.40.
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