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The TONGUE always returns to the sore tooth



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The TONGUE always returns to the sore tooth

  • 1586 G. PETTIE tr. S. Guazzo’s Civil Conversation (1925) II. 201 The tongue rolles there where the tooth aketh. 1659 J. HOWELL Proverbs (Spanish) 27 There the tongue goes where the tooth akes. 1746 B. FRANKLIN Poor Richard’s Almanack (July) The Tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth. 1817 J. K. PAULDING Letters from South II. 167 The tongue touches where the tooth aches, as the saying goes; the English of which is that people are apt to talk of what annoys them most at the moment. 1949 W. KRASNER Walk Dark Streets ii. He would stop.. to find the flaws in his case were standing over him, implacable, like the certainty of guilt. The tongue always returned to the sore tooth. 1985 K. S. ROBINSON in G. Dozois Isaac Asimov’s Mars (1991) 155 In the same way that a tongue will go to a sore tooth over and over, Roger finds himself following Hans and Arthus to hear the areologist’s explanation. "persistence

tongue see also the DEVIL makes his Christmas pies of lawyers’ tongues and clerks’ fingers; a STILL tongue makes a wise head; with a SWEET tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.
TOO many cooks spoil the broth

  • 1575 ? J. HOOKER Life of Carew (1857) 33 There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage. 1662 B. GERBIER Principles of Building 24 When.. an undertaking hath been committed to many, it caused but confusion, and therefore it is a saying..Too many Cooks spoils the Broth. c 1805 J. AUSTEN Watsons (1972) VI. 318 She professes to keep her own counsel. .. ‘Too many Cooks spoil the Broth.’ 1855 C. KINGSLEY Westward Ho! II. vii. As Amyas sagely remarked, ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth, and half-a- dozen gentlemen aboard one ship are as bad as two kings of Brentford.’ 1979 Guardian 7 Nov. 6 It was a great mistake to think that administration was improved by taking on more administrators. .. ‘Too many cooks spoil the broth.’ 1997 Times 8 Aug. 25 Too many cooks spoil the broth and at Apple there is now the equivalent of Marco Pierre White, Anton Mosimann and Nico Ladenis. "assistance; busybodies; work


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