work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3326,"",Posted by Joel Berson to C18 Listserv. Metaphor traced to this source by Suzanne Morgen.,2005-05-25 00:00:00 UTC,"
Proverbial Periphrases of one drunk.
He's disguised. He has got a piece of bread and cheese in's head. He has drunk more than he has bled. He has been i'th' Sun. He has a jagg or load. He has got a dish. He has got a cup too much. He is one and thirty. He is dag'd. He has cut his leg. He is afflicted. He is top-heavy. The malt is above the water. As drunk as a wheelbarrow. He makes indentures with his legs. He's well to live. He's about to cast up his reckoning or accompts. He has made an example. He is concerned. He is as drunk as David's sow. He has stollen a manchet out of the brewers basket. He's raddled. He is very weary. He drank till he gave up his half-penny, i.e. vomited.
(p. 87)
",2009-07-09,8594,•Meaning he's drunk.,"""He's got a piece of cheese and bread in's head.""","",2009-09-14 19:33:39 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 02:27:24 UTC,"The horse next the mill carries all the grist.
My mind to me a kingdom is.
A penny worth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Mischiefs come by the pound, and go away by the ounce.
(p. 136)",,18829,"","""My mind to me a kingdom is.""","",2011-06-28 02:27:43 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 02:31:16 UTC,"To go cheek by jowl with one.
To chew the cud upon a thing.
i.e. To consider of a thing, to revolve it in one's mind: to ruminate, which is the name of this action, is used in the same sense both in Latin and English.
(p. 182)",,18830,"","""To chew the cud upon a thing ... To consider of a thing, to revolve it in one's mind: to ruminate, which is the name of this action, is used in the same sense both in Latin and English.""",Beasts,2011-06-28 02:31:16 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 02:40:15 UTC,"[...]
As many heads as many wits.
A blind man should not judge of colours.
As the old cock craws, the young cock leares.
A skabbed horse is good enough for a scald squire.
A mirk mirrour is a man's mind.
As meikle up with, as meikledown with.
An ill shearer gat never a good hook.
A tarrowing bairne was never fat.
A good cow may have an ill calf.
A cock is crouse in his own midding.
A new bissome soupes clean.
As fair sights wranes as cranes.
A yelt sow was never good to gryses.
As the carle riches he wretches.
A fool when he lies spoken hes all done.
An old feck craves meikle clouting.
An old feck is ay skailing.
A fair fire makes a room fiet.
An old knave is na bairne.
A good yeaman makes a good woman.
A man hath no more good than he hath good of.
A fool may give a wise man a counsel.
A man may speir the gate to Rome.
As long lives the merry man as the wretch for all the craft he can.
(p. 280)",,18831,"","""A mirk mirrour is a man's mind.""",Optics,2011-06-28 02:40:15 UTC,Scottish Proverbs
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 02:49:00 UTC,"He that blows in the dust fills his eyes.
The Body is the socket of the Soul.
It's easy to bowl down hill.
Brabbling currs never want sore ears.
The brain that sows not corn plants thistles.
The Ass that brays most eats least.
Wotild you have better bread than is made of wheat? Ital.
Bread with eyes, and cheese without eyes. Hisp. Ital.
To beg breeches of a bare ars'd man.
As I brew so I must drink.
(p. 3)",,18832,"","""The Body is the socket of the Soul.""","",2011-06-28 02:49:00 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 02:49:56 UTC,"He that blows in the dust fills his eyes.
The Body is the socket of the Soul.
It's easy to bowl down hill.
Brabbling currs never want sore ears.
The brain that sows not corn plants thistles.
The Ass that brays most eats least.
Wotild you have better bread than is made of wheat? Ital.
Bread with eyes, and cheese without eyes. Hisp. Ital.
To beg breeches of a bare ars'd man.
As I brew so I must drink.
(p. 3)",,18833,"","""The brain that sows not corn plants thistles.""","",2011-06-28 02:52:30 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 02:59:08 UTC,"Confession of a fault makes half amends for it.
He that contemplates hath a day without a night.
He may well be contented who needs neither borrow nor flatter.
He that converseth not with men knoweth nothing.
Corn in good years is hay, in ill years straw is corn.
Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastning.
He covers me with his wings, and bites me with his bill.
A covetous man is like a dog in a wheel that roasteth meat for others.
A dry cough is the trumpeter of death.
(p. 4)",,18834,"","""Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastning.""","",2011-06-28 02:59:08 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 03:07:09 UTC,"She lives by love and lumps in comers.
Every one that can lick a dish; as much as to say, every one simpliciter, tag-rag and bob-tail.
It's a lightening before death.
This is generally observed of sick persons, that a little before they die their pains leave them, and their understanding and memory return to them; as a candle just before it goes out gives a great blaze.
(p. 59)",,18835,"","""It's a lightening before death ... This is generally observed of sick persons, that a little before they die their pains leave them, and their understanding and memory return to them; as a candle just before it goes out gives a great blaze.""","",2011-06-28 03:07:09 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google Books,2011-06-28 03:12:40 UTC,"Prœstat otiosum esse quam nihil agere. Plin. Epist. Better be idle than do that which is to no purpose, or as good as nothing; much more than that which is evil.
An idle brain is the Devil's shop.
Idle folks have the most labour.
Idle folks lack no excuses.
No jesting with edge tools, or with bell-ropes.
(p. 124)",,18836,"","""An idle brain is the Devil's shop.""",Rooms,2011-06-28 03:12:40 UTC,""
3326,"",Searching in Google books,2011-06-28 03:21:54 UTC,"Wind and weather do thy worst.
To go down the wind.
Win it and wear it.
To have one in the wind.
To have wind-mills in his head.
Keep your wind, &c. v. breath.
You may wink and chuse.
(p. 216)",,18837,"","""To have wind-mills in his head.""","",2011-06-28 03:22:12 UTC,""