disappear. 1928 D. H. LAWRENCE Lady Chatterley’s Lover iv. The mental life.. [is]
rooted in spite and envy. .. Ye shall know the tree by its fruit. 1955 S. N. GHOSE Flame
of Forest I. 15 ‘I never judge a man by his mask.’ ‘A tree should be judged by its fruits,’
Myna responded. appearance; human naturetree see also the APPLE never falls far from the tree; he that would EAT the fruit must
climb the tree; when the LAST tree is cut down,.. you will realize that you cannot eat money;
you cannot SHIFT an old tree without it dying; as the TWIG is bent, so is the tree inclined;
WALNUTS and pears you plant for your heirs; a WOMAN, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more
you beat them the better they be.
trick see you can’t TEACH an old dog new tricks.There are TRICKS in every trade1632 M. PARKER (title) Knavery in all Trades. 1654 Mercurius Fumigosus 12–19
July 49 If there be not Knavery in All Trades, I shrewdly am mistaken. 1692 R.
L’ESTRANGE Fables of Aesop clxxxiii. Jupiter appointed Mercury to make him a
Composition of Fraud and Hypocrisie, and to give Every Artificer his Dose on’t. ..
Mercury.. gave the Taylors the Whole Quantity that was Left; and from hence comes the
Old Saying, There’s Knavery in All Trades, but Most in Taylors. 1857 E. BENNETT
Border Rover vi. ‘I would be willing to swear you had bewitched this rifle.’.. ‘Thar’s
tricks to all trades ‘cept ourn.’ 1978 L. BLOCK Burglar in Closet xvii. You age them
[bills, paper money].. by cooking them with a little coffee—well, there are tricks in every
trade—and I don’t.. know some of the ones the counterfeiters have come up with. 1987 S.
STEWART Lifting the Latch 87 ‘Theer’s a trick in every trade,’ he was fond of saying,
‘bar besom[broom]-making, and the biggest stick goes in the middle theer.’ business;
trades and skillsA TROUBLE shared is a trouble halved1931 D. L. SAYERS Five Red Herrings ix. ‘Unbosom yourself,’ said Wimsey.
‘Trouble shared is trouble halved.’ 1966 A. CARTER Shadow Dance viii. He found he
wanted to share the experience of the previous night with Edna (a trouble shared is a
trouble halved). 1987 C. GRAHAM Killings at Badger’s Drift 7 She had never felt more
keenly the truth of the saying ‘a trouble shared is a trouble halved’. But she had lived in a
small village long enough to know that what she had discovered could safely be discussed
with no one. 2002 Times 18 Mar. 12 Thorpe’s estranged wife,.. acting under the principle
of a problem shared is a problem halved, wanted ‘the truth to come out’. trouble