832 Hungarian Proverbs / Page 12
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He brought motion in a quiet life.222.
He builds castles in the air.223.
He buys a cat in a poke.224.
He can get money in desert.225.
He can live even on flat ice.226.
He can see the splinter in another's eye but cannot see even the beam in his own.227.
He cannot see the wood for the trees.228.
He combines the pleasant with the useful.229.
He confides the cabbage to the goat.230.
He considers it as straw of, the landowner Csaky.231.
He could not earn enough to buy even cold water.232.
He crushes pepper under the nose of somebody.233.
He cut his axe into a big tree.234.
He cuts the tree under himself.235.
He danced bound hand and foot.236.
He dances on a razor-edge.237.
He defends the honour of the uniform.238.
He did not shoot the hare but the pot is already on the fire.239.
He disappeared like a grey donkey in the fog.240.
He does not even know whether it is a pumpkin or a curd-cake.