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RUSSIAN PROVERB
EVERY BIRD BRAGS ABOUT ITS OWN SWAMP.
Where learned: RUSSIA ; MOSCOW
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; EGOTISM ; SYMBOL ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
PROVERB
EVERY BEAST ROARS IN ITS OWN DEN.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-15-1971
BIRD IN THE NEST
EVERY BIRD LIKES HIS OWN NEST BEST.
PEOPLE LIKE WHAT IS FAMILIAR TO THEM.
Submitter comment:
MARY LOU'S INFORMANT WAS HER GRANDMOTHER, BRIDGET O'CONNER, 81,
WIDOWED -- LONDON, ONTARIO.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-08-1972
PROVERB
EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT WAS TOLD THIS BY HER FATHER IN THE YEAR 1933.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): REVENGE ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-20-1972
PROVERB
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT USED THE PROVERB IN A CONVERSATION
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): REVENGE ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-22-1970
PROVERB
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY; EVERY CAT HAS HIS NIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; LETCHERY ; PARALLELISM ; REVENGE ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-20-1972
ITALIAN PROVERB
EVERY DOG IS A LION AT HOME.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-12-1965
PROVERB
EVERY OLD CROW THINKS HER OWN THE BLACKEST.
Data entry tech comment: WE BELIEVE THIS REFERS TO MATERNAL PRIDE IN OFFSPRING.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): BIRD
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; OBSERVATION ; PREJUDICE ; UNOBJECTIVE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 03-20-1968
PROVERB
"EVERYONE TO HIS TASTE," SAID THE FARMER AS HE KISSED HIS COW.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): INDEPENDENCE ; IRONY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation |
Date learned: 10-24-1968
FATTEN THE HORSE
THE EYES OF THE OWNER FATTEN THE HORSE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HIS FATHER IN ITALY.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
James Callow Keyword(s): PREJUDICE ; SYMBOL ; UNOBJECTIVE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Eyes, evil eye PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 08-00-1964
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
NERVOUS AS A HEN ON A HOT SHOVEL
Submitter comment: MY GRANDMOTHER LEARNED THIS EXPRESSION AS A CHILD ON A FARM IN CASEVILLE, MICHIGAN
Where learned: HOME ; BIRMINGHAM ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
Keyword(s): BIRDS
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; ANXIETY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
PROVERBIAL SIMILE
NERVOUS AS A LONG TAILED CAT IN A ROOM OF ROCKING CHAIRS
USED WHEN TRYING TO POINT OUT HOW NERVOUS A PERSON, YOURSELF
OR SOMEONE ELSE, CAN BECOME IN A GIVEN SITUATION
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT REMEMBERS THIS BEING USED DURING HIS CHILDHOOD
HE HAS USED IT AND HEARD OTHERS USE IT IN TIMES OF STRESS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WESTLAND
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; ANXIETY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 11-08-1971
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
NEVER LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH
APPRECIATE IT WHEN SOMEONE GIVES YOU SOMETHING
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE ; ANIMAL ; CURIOSITY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-07-1971
THAI PROVERB
NEVER TRUST A COBRA, AN ELEPHANT IN HEAT, OR A LOVING WIFE
Where learned: THAILAND
Keyword(s): EPIGRAMS
James Callow Keyword(s): REPTILE ANIMALS ; SUSPICION
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Number Emptiness, nothingness, zero PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR- POLISH
NEW YEAR'S DAY HAD HARDLY DAWNED WHEN IT DISAPPEARED LIKE
THE JUMP OF A LAMB.
Data entry tech comment: ORIGINAL 5 X 8 CARD CONTAINS POLISH TEXT.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
A NICKEL A DAY KEEPS THE BUMBLEBEES AWAY
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL INSECT ; PARODY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
NOBODY LOVES A WET DOG
Data entry tech comment: NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY, I'M SURE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; OSCODA
James Callow Keyword(s): ADVICE: NEGATIVE ; ANIMAL ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB IN VERSE
NO FROGS PLAY AS WELL AS THE POLISH FROGS DO
Data entry tech comment: ORIGINAL 5 X 8 CARD CONTAINS POLISH TEXT
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMALS ; NATIONALISM ; TRANSLATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR-- FLEMISH
NO NEED FOR CANDLELIGHT OR MONOCLE IF THE OWL IS BLIND.
NO USE IN ARGUING. THE OTHER PERSON DOESN'T LISTEN.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS GIVEN TO ME WHEN HE WAS VISITING DETROIT, MICHIGAN
FROM BELGUIM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; OBSERVATION ; SYMBOL ; TRANSLATION?
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-01-1967
PROVERB ABOUT AN ANT
NONE PREACHES BETTER THAN AN ANT AND SHE SAYS NOTHING
Submitter comment: TRADITIONAL SEMINARY JOKE
Where learned: CONNECTICUT ; STAMFORD ; SAINT GREGORYS SEMINARY
James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; CLERGY ; IRONY ; SYMBOL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1957