A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

tough see when the GOING gets tough, the tough get going.

town see GOD made the country, and man made the town.

TRADE follows the flag

1870 J. A. FROUDE in Fraser’s Magazine Jan. 4 The removal of a million poor

creatures to Canada and the establishment of them there.. would probably have turned

out.. a profitable investment. Trade follows the flag. 1945 R. HARGREAVES Enemy at

Gate 152 There is a glib saying..that ‘trade follows the flag’; an apophthegm that

succeeds in putting the cart before the horse with greater aplomb than almost any other

cant phrase in common use. 1979 in C. Allen Tales from Dark Continent i. There is a

famous old quotation that ‘Trade follows the Flag’ but.. in West Africa.. the reverse was

true. business

trade see also EVERY man to his trade; JACK of all trades and master of none; there are
TRICKS in every trade; TWO of a trade never agree.

transplant see you cannot SHIFT an old tree without it dying.

TRAVEL broadens the mind

1911 ‘SAKI’ ‘Way to Dairy’ in Chronicles of Clovis (Short Stories of Saki, 1958)

195 ‘Travel enlarges the mind, my dear Christine,’ said her aunt. ‘Yes, dear aunt, travel

undertaken in the right spirit,’ agreed Christine; ‘but travel pursued merely as a means

towards gambling and extravagant living is more likely to contract the purse than to

enlarge the mind.’ 1929 G. K. CHESTERTON Poet & Lunatics iii. He may be a trifle

cracked,.. but that’s only because his travels have been too much for his intellect. They

say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind. 1949 N. STREATFEILD

Painted Garden iii. Foreign travel broadens the mind..and a broadened mind helps all art.

1969 ‘E. LATHEN’ When in Greece xvii. ‘The Americans we have met compare very

favorably with most other nationals.’ Travel, after all, can broaden only so many minds.

1981 C. KING Commonplace Book 22 It has so truly been said that travel—anywhere—

broadens the mind. 1997 Times 24 Dec. 14 The past may be a foreign country through

which we travel as strangers. But travel still broadens the mind. experience; travel

travel (verb) see BAD news travels fast; it is BETTER to travel hopefully than to arrive.