 | 1817 - 308 Seiten
...tough, young- and tender. Miscellany Proverbial Sayings. PUT a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief. Harry's children of Leigh, never an one like another. A seaman if he carries a mill-stone will have... | |
 | John Brand - 1842
..."An honest Miller hath a golden Thumb." Ihid. p. 167, "Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief." (s) In Ainsworth's Dictionary, " A Miller's Thumb [the fish] is rendered Capita, Cephalus fluvialis."... | |
 | John Brand - 1849
..."An honest miller hath a golden thumb." Ibid. p. 16", "Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief." I suspect " the miller's thumb" to have been the name of the strickle used in measuring corn, the instrument... | |
 | Ida Reinsberg-Düringsfeld (baronin von) - 1875
...hon- dt. derd kleermaker» zijn drie honderd dieven. Hundert Bäcker, hundert Müller und hun• dert Schneider sind dreihundert Diebe. Put a miller, a...tailor in a bag, en. and shake them , the first that сотен ont will be a thief. Thut einen Müller, einen Weber und einen Schneider in einen Sack und... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - 532 Seiten
...Put a coward to his mettle, and he'll fight the devil. Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief. R. Put a spoke in his wheel. Put a stool in the sun : when one knave rises, another will come. Put... | |
 | 1887 - 602 Seiten
...hanged, people take off their hats to great ones. Ger. 34. Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief. 35. Set a thief to catch a thief. 36. Stealing would be a nice thing if thieves were hanged by the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, John Ray - 1899 - 583 Seiten
...coward to his mettle, and he'll fight the devil, 253. Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief, 62. Put a spoke in his wheel. Put a stool in the sun, when one knave rises another will come, viz.... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward - 1903
...Greene, Quip for an Upstart Courtier; Harl. Misc., v. 417. Put a miller, a tailor and a weaver in one bag and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief. — Ho. A tailor's shreds are worth the cutting. — R., 167o. The weaver and the tailor, cozens they... | |
 | Wolfgang Mieder - 2004 - 304 Seiten
...providing them with the meal due them. Such proverbs as "Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag and shake them, the first that comes out will be a thief," "A miller\sa thief," "Many a miller, many a thief," "Every miller draws water to his own mill," "Millers... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh - 2003 - 492 Seiten
...Spitalfields Silks, Victoria and Albert Museum (1975). 'Put a miller, a weaver and a tailor in a bag, and shake them; the first that comes out will be a thief.' 'To be as thick as thieves' meant exactly the same as to be 'as thick as inkle- weavers', for the inkle... | |
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Put a miller, a weaver, and a tailor in a bag, and shake them ; the first that comes out will be a thief. 