PEOPLE
PROVERBS
PROVERBS WITH THE TITLE : "use"
Idle folks lack no excuses.
It suggests that:
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
means that:
Unwillingness easily finds an excuse.
said to mean that:
To bring grist to somebody’s mill.
said when:
To flog a dead horse.
said when :
As good be an addled egg as an idle bird
applied to :
A bad excuse is better than none.
means that:
The bleating of the kid excites the tiger.
means that:
A tidy house holds a bored woman.
an old stereotype:
A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet
suggests that:
He who excuses, accuses himself
It suggests that:
Marriage is a loottery
suggests that:
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