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jest

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many a TRUE word is spoken in jest
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jewel

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FAIR play's a jewel
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Jill

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a GOOD Jack makes a good Jill
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every JACK has his Jill
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job

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never send a BOY to do a man's job
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if a THING'S worth doing, it's worth doing well
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join

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if you can't BEAT them, join them
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JOUK and let the jaw go by

A Scottish proverb counselling prudent or evasive action when trouble threatens. The phrase
to jouk and let the jaw go by
is also found.

1721
Scottish Proverbs
189
Juck [stoop], and let the jaw [rush of water] go o'er you. That is, prudently yield to a present Torrent.
1817
Rob Roy
II. xii.
Gang your ways hame, like a gude bairn—jouk and let the jaw gae by.
1927
Witch Wood
xv.
A man must either jouk and let the jaw go bye, as the owercome [common expression] says, or he must ride the whirlwind.