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Wasting

You can take more out the back door in a teaspoon then I can
bring in the front door in a wheelbarrel.

Submitter comment: This was always told to me and my brothers and sisters by my
father when we were being wasteful.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

James Callow Keyword(s): Waste

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

Date learned: 00-00-1968

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