832 Hungarian Proverbs / Page 14
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He guards it, him like his eyesight.262.
He hangs out the dirty linen, to the public.263.
He has a coat-affair.264.
He has a finger in every pie.265.
He has already one foot in the grave.266.
He has caught the leg of God.267.
He has discovered the sealing wax.268.
He has hit the udder between the horns.269.
He has passed the road to Damascus.270.
He has put bad wood on the fire.271.
He has stirred up, or threw a stone into, still water.272.
He hits the nail on the head.273.
He holds out a carrot to somebody.274.
He is a spoon in all liquids.275.
He is afraid of it, as the devil fears holy water or incense.276.
He is as impertinent as a fly at the market.277.
He is as poor as a church mouse.278.
He is between two fires.279.
He is doing a fireman's work.280.
He is flaying the same bock.