Nationality: Finnish Proverbs and sayings
To have a cow that is still more profitable to milk than to slaughter.
Quote Explanation: Old or crippled cows were slaughtered for slaughter, but if the cow was lame, but gave milk or was calving, it was preserved.
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Viker 14-03-2024 / 15:55
Turn the jacket inside out.
Quote Explanation: During the hungry months, peasants went out onto the roads to rob, and so as not to be recognized by their embroidery, they turned their clothes inside out. In a more modern understanding, this is time to betray.
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Viker 14-03-2024 / 15:55
Pity is given freely, but envy must be earned.
Quote Explanation: This means that sympathy is free, and envy is expensive, which means you have good luck in business.
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Viker 14-03-2024 / 15:55
Take the bread from the earth, not from the mouth of another.
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MegaMozg 21-07-2017 / 12:27
For a guest and fish with one rule: after three days rotten.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 15:22
Bragging rights are always tainted.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 15:22
Not out of life alive.
Ei elämästä selviä hengissä.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 08:58
In the country - according to the customs of the country.
Maassa maan tavalla.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 08:58
To no avail the dog on bark lice.
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MegaMozg 16-01-2017 / 08:58
The young are once and a child twice.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 23:58
Not all men who walk in the pants.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 23:58
Better be an honest sinner than a pious fraud.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 23:58
The smell of coffee will appreciate the house, on the cake - hostess.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 23:58
The expectation is the daughter of hope.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 23:58
In a lot of grief counselors is.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 23:58
