hold see what you HAVE, hold.
Holdfast see BRAG is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.
When you are in a HOLE, stop digging
1988 D. HEALEY Observer in J. Care (ed.) Sayings of the Eighties It is a good thing
to follow the first law of holes; if you are in one, stop digging. 1989 U.S. News & World
Report 23 Jan. CVI. iii. 46 (headline) When you’re in a hole, stop digging. 1997 Times 15
Sept. 1 William Hague seems to have forgotten the first rule of politics: when you are in
a hole, stop digging. 2001 Spectator 1 Dec. 32 Parliament would be unwise to hand to
somebody in Tehran, Lambeth Palace or Salt Lake City the power, by pronouncing
something hateful, to create an offence under English law. You’re in a hole, Home
Secretary. Stop digging. prudence; troubleHOME is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session
The Court of Session is the supreme civil tribunal of Scotland, established in 1532.
1832 W. MOTHERWELL in A. Henderson Scottish Proverbs lxix. Nothing more
bitter was ever uttered .. against our Supreme Court of Judicature, than the saying .. Hame
is hamely, quo’ the Deil, when he fand himself in the Court of Session. 1915 J. BUCHAN
Salute to Adventurers iv. I saw nothing now to draw me to .. law. .. ‘Hame’s hame,’ runs
the proverb, ‘as the devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session,’ and I had
lost any desire for that sinister company. law and lawyersHOME is home though it’s never so homely
The archaic phrase never so means ‘ever so’.
1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs I. iv. B1 Home is homely, though it be
poore in syght. 1569–70 Stationers’ Register (1875) 1.192 A ballett intituled home ys
homelye be yt neuer so ill. 1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 103 Home is home though it be
never so homely. 1857 DICKENS Little Dorrit II. ix. ‘Just as Home is Home though it’s
never so Homely, why you see,’ said Mr. Meagles, adding a new version to the proverb,
‘Rome is Rome though it’s never so Romely.’ 1915 J. WEBSTER Dear Enemy 46 Hame
is hame, be’t ever sae hamely. Don’t you marvel at the Scotch? content and discontent;