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Practice your Proverbs


Practice your Proverbs

Nothing defines a culture as distinctly as its language, and the element of language that best encapsulates a society's values and beliefs is its proverbs.

Proverbs are short and pithy sayings that express some traditionally held truth. They are usually metaphorical and often, for the sake of memorability, alliterative.


  1. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single _________.

  2. cream
    ticket
    step

  3. The grass is always _______ on the other side.

  4. cleaner
    greener
    meaner

  5. An apple a day keeps the _________ away.

  6. doctor
    nurse
    dentist

  7. Laughter is the best __________.

  8. cure
    medicine
    test

  9. Money is the root of all ___________.

  10. evil
    devil
    eagle

  11. One man's _______ is another man's poison

  12. seat
    feet
    meat

  13. Do as I say, not as I ___.

  14. don't
    do
    will

  15. _________ wasn't built in a day.

  16. Frome
    Swansea
    Rome

  17. Silence is ______.

  18. golden
    quiet
    good

  19. Softly, softly, catchee ______.

  20. cold
    flu
    monkey