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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