Commons:Photo challenge/2014 - March - Proverbs and idioms

2014 - March - Proverbs and idioms

Entries for this challenge theme should illustrate a proverb or idiom, in the opinion of the photographer. Please cite the proverb/idiom or provide a link to a related article.

For this theme, photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period (but may have been taken earlier) and must be the work of the nominator. The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout March UTC.

Please add your entries to the bottom of the Entries section below and add the category Photo challenge/2014 - March - Proverbs and idioms to all your submissions. --Anna reg (talk) 16:05, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

This Challenge has now closed for submissions. -- Colin (talk) 19:23, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

• examples
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  Netherlandish Proverbs by Bruegel
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  Love is blind
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  See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil
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  Don't cry over spilled milk
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  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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  A stitch in time saves nine
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  Birds of a feather flock together
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  Tempest/storm in a teapot
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  Hit the nail on the head
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  Piece of cake
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  When pigs fly
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  To let the cat out the bag
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  Put all your eggs in one basket

Entries

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  Fire is a good servant but a bad master
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  Nothing ventured, nothing gained
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  My home is my castle!
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  An old horse knows the way
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  A little bird told me, [[1]]
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  Ecclesiastes 1:14 I saw all the works that were done under the sun, and look! everything was futile, a chasing after the wind.
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  Put your best foot forward
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  Dead men tell no tales
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  The time goes quickly, be ready !
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  All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - Arbeit allein macht nicht glücklich
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  Do not judge the book by its cover!
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  Es ist höchste Eisenbahn (lit. "it is highest railway"), German idiom for "it's very urgent"
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  Español: "El Diablo tiene el poder de adoptar Formas Agradables".

  English: "The Devil has the power to embrace Pleasant Ways.

  W. Shakespeare. (Hamlet).
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  Cat nap
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  Da fährt die Eisenbahn drüber (Google cache) (lit. "the railway traverses above that"), Austrian German idiom for "that's absolutely certain"
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  Français : "La vigne pleure". La sève coule quand la taille est faite alors que le sève monte.

  English: "The vine weeps". Sap flowing from a fresh pruned branch of Muscadet vine while sap's rising.
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  Birds of a feather flock together. Gleich und gleich gesellt sich gern.
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  Unfinished business
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  Bird's-eye view
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  Before and after - Opuntia littoralis
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  The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese
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  Birds of a feather flock together (literally).
  類は友を呼ぶ。
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