| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Like |
| | | Like a chip in the pottage pot, doth neither good nor harm. | 1 |
| Like arming a hog in the snout with a ploughshare, that can tear up the ground without it. Tamil. | 2 |
| Like box-makers, more noise than work. French. | 3 |
| Like driving away dogs till break of day, because he had lent his door to a neighbor. Tamil. | 4 |
| Like putting one’s hand in a water-pot in search of a missing elephant. Tamil. | 5 |
Like the strange missile the Australian throws,
Your verbal boomerang slaps you on the nose. | 6 |
| Like the hidalgo’s dinner, very little meat and a great deal of table-cloth. Spanish Student. | 7 |
| Like the old sow: you have to pull her ears off to get her to the trough, and her tail off to get her away. | 8 |
| Like the squire of Guadalaxara who knew nothing in the morning of what he said at night. Spanish. | 9 |
| Like the tailor who sewed for nothing and found the thread himself. | 10 |
| Like the wife that never cries for the ladle until the pot runs over. | 11 | | |
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