A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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try see you never KNOW what you can do till you try; if at first you don’t SUCCEED, try,
try, try, again.


tsar see GOD is high above, and the tsar is far away.

Every TUB must stand on its own bottom

A proverb advocating independence and initiative.

1564 W. BULLEIN Dialogue against Fever 48 V Let euery Fatte [vat] stande vpon
his owne bottome. 1639 J. CLARKE Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina 66 Every tub must stand
on his owne bottome. 1721 C. CIBBER Refusal v. 7211 have nothing to do with that. ..
Let every Tub stand on its own Bottom. 1948 F. THOMPSON Still glides Stream iv.
‘Every tub must stand on its own bottom,’ was one of his homely ways of expressing the
individual independence desirable in children. 1994 H. N. THOMAS Spirits in Dark xviii.
2141 know the Old Testament tell us that the sins o’ the fathers get visited on the
children, but yo’ mustn’ have a hand in that. Let ‘every tub must sit ‘pon its own bottom.’
independence

Tuesday see Monday’s CHILD is fair of face.

tug see when GREEK meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.

tune see why should the DEVIL have all the best tunes?; a DRIPPING June sets all in tune;
when the FURZE is in bloom, my love’s in tune; there’s many a GOOD tune played on an old
fiddle; he that LIVES in hope dances to an ill tune; he who PAYS the piper calls the tune.


TURKEY, heresy, hops, and beer came into England all in one year

1599 H. BUTTES Diet’s Dry Dinner G4 I know not how it happened (as he merrily
saith) that herisie and beere came hopping into England both in a yeere. 1643 R. BAKER
Chronicle Henry VIII 66 About [1524].. it happened that divers things were newly
brought into England, whereupon this Rime was made: ‘Turke[y]s, Carps, Hoppes,
Piccarell [young pike], and Beere, Came into England all in one yeere.’ 1906 R. KIPLING
Puck of Pook’s Hill 235 We say—‘Turkey, Heresy, Hops, and Beer Came into England all
in one year.’ 1979 Observer 16 Dec. 56 ‘Turkeys, heresies, hops and beer All came to
England in the one year’ says the rhyme, but the Romans gave us hops. innovation
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