A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

dream see also MORNING dreams come true.
DREAMS go by contraries

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  c 1400 Beryn (EETS) 1.108 Comynly of these swevenys [dreams] the contrary man shul fynde. 1584 LYLY Sappho & Phao IV. iii. I dreamed last night, but I hope dreams are contrary, that..all my hair blazed on a bright flame. 1673 W. WYCHERLEY Gentleman Dancing-Master IV. 64 Ne’re fear it, dreams go by the contraries. 1731 FIELDING Grub-Street Opera I. xi. Oh! the perjury of men! I find dreams do not always go by contraries. 1860 T. C. HALIBURTON Season-Ticket 30 The events of life, like dreams, appear in the words of the old proverb, ‘to go by contraries’. 1932 J. H. WALLIS Capital City Murder iv. There was no sign.. of Lester Armande. ‘Dreams go by contraries,’ said Lily. 1973 ‘P. SIMPLE’ Stretchford Chronicles (1980) 198 They say dreams go by opposites. ..Perhaps you’ll dream about that AA man again. "dreams
  

dressed see FIRST up, best dressed.
drink see EAT, drink, and be merry.. ; you can take a HORSE to the water, but you can’t make him drink.
He that DRINKS beer, thinks beer

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  1820 W. IRVING Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon vii. 70 (footnote) They who drink beer will think beer. 1867 A. D. RICHARDSON Beyond Mississippi i. ‘They who drink beer think beer,’ but Catawba and Muscatel neither muddle the brain nor fire the passions. 1912 R. A. FREEMAN Mystery of 31, New Inn v. ‘You despise the good old British John Barleycorn.’ ‘He that drinks beer thinks beer,’ retorted Thorndyke. 1958 D. G. BROWNE Death in Seven Volumes xii. ‘He who drinks beer, thinks beer,’ was one of his favourite aphorisms. ■ action and consequence; drunkenness; food and drink