dog than choking it with butter; there are more WAYS of killing a dog than hanging it.
MORNING dreams come trueC f. MOSCHUS Europa 2
at the third watch of the night, when dawn is near,.. and
when the flock of true dreams is out grazing; HORACE Satires I. X. 33 post mediam noctem
visus, cum somnia vera, he appeared to me after midnight, when dreams are true.
1540 J. PALSGRAVE Acolastus II. i. After mydnyght men saye, that dreames be
true. 1616 JONSON Love Restored VIII. 385 All the morning dreames are true. 1813 W.
B. RHODES Bombastes Furioso III. 7 This morn..I dreamt (and morning dreams come
true, they say). 1909 A. MACLAREN Romans 87 Our highest anticipations and desires
are not unsubstantial visions, but morning dreams, which are proverbially sure to be
fulfilled. dreamsmorning see also never BID the Devil good morrow until you meet him; RED sky at night
shepherd’s delight.
moss see a ROLLING stone gathers no moss.most see who KNOWS most, speaks least.Like MOTHER, like daughterThe female equivalent of like FATHER, like son. EZEKIEL xvi. 44 (AV) Every one.. shall
use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
a 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) 1. 18857 O suilk [such] a moder, wel slik [such] a
child. 1474 CAXTON Game of Chess II. ii. For suche moder suche doughter comunely.
1644 R. WILLIAMS Bloody Tenent of Persecution xcix. Is not this as the Prophet speaks,
Like mother, like daughter? 1861 C. READE Cloister & Hearth II. xvii. ‘Mother, you
were so hot against her.’.. ‘Ay. .. Like mother like daughter: cowardice it is our bane.’
1992 A. LAMBERT Rather English Marriage (1993) xi. 188 ‘Darling, you are hopeless!
Why are you always so broke?’ (Like mother, like daughter, she thought to herself.)
children and parents; similarity and dissimilarity