All cat love fish but fear to wet their paws
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- Love is full of fear
- Love is a constant source of fear
A dry March, a wet April and a cool May fill barn and cellar and bring much hay
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- March borrowed from april three days, and they were ill
- April showers bring May flowers
- April and May are the keys of the year
He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- Venture a small fish to catch a great one
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
If the sun in red should set, the next day surely will be wet; if the sun should set in grey, the next will be a rainy day
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- Evening red and morning grey help the traveller on his way; evening grey and morning red bring down rain upon his head
- Rainy day
- To lay by for a rainy day
Spit on a stone, and it will be wet at the last
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- Spit the dummy
- Spit blood
- Spitting image
The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- All cat love fish but fear to wet their paws
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her feet
- Velvet paws hid sharp claws
Wet May, makes short Corn and long Hay, Dry May, makes long Corn and short Hay
Source: Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases by Bartlett Jere Whiting
Dry
A dry March, a wet April and a cool May fill barn and cellar and bring much hay
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- March borrowed from april three days, and they were ill
- April showers bring May flowers
- April and May are the keys of the year
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- What children hear at home, soon flies abroad
- They that have no other meat, bread and butter are glad to eat
- Roasted ducks don´t fly into your mouth
Ever drunk, ever dry
Similar English and Irish sayings:- He that has it and will not keep it; he that wants it and will not seek it; he that drinks and is not dry, shall want money as well as I
- Drown your sorrows
- Hair of the dog
He that has it and will not keep it; he that wants it and will not seek it; he that drinks and is not dry, shall want money as well as I
Similar English and Irish sayings:
- Drink like a fish
- He who flings gold away with his hands seeks it with his feet
- Money breeds money
No coming to heaven with dry eyes
Similar English and Irish sayings:- There is no going to heaven in a sedan
- Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven
- Heaven suits the back to the burden
Scandal will rub off like dirt when it is dry
Similar English and Irish sayings:- When the cuckoo comes, he eats up all the dirt (udaberria datorrelako)
- He that flings dirt at another, dirtieth himself most
- Never cast dirt into that fountain of which you have sometime drunk
To come out dry
Similar English and Irish sayings:- No coming to heaven with dry eyes
- Ever drunk, ever dry
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
Watching paint dry
The meaning of the english idiom – Watching paint dry
If something is like watching paint dry, it is really boring.Similar English and Irish sayings:
- Watch grass grow
- Painted Jezebel
We never know the value of water till the well is dry
Similar English and Irish sayings:- You never miss the water till the well runs dry
- He that eats till he is sick, must fast till he is well
- Don’t throw out the dirty water until you have the clean water in
You never miss the water till the well runs dry
Similar English and Irish sayings:- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- Miss the boat
- Miss is as good as a mile
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