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it takes ALL sorts to make a world
;
you can take the BOY out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy
;
GIVE a thing, and take a thing, to wear the Devil's gold ring
;
GIVE and take is fair play
;
you can take a HORSE to the water, but you can't make him drink
;
you PAYS your money and you takes your choice
;
take care of the PENCE and the pounds will take care of themselves
;
it takes TWO to make a bargain
;
it takes TWO to make a quarrel
;
it takes TWO to tango
.
it takes ALL sorts to make a world
;
you can take the BOY out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy
;
GIVE a thing, and take a thing, to wear the Devil's gold ring
;
GIVE and take is fair play
;
you can take a HORSE to the water, but you can't make him drink
;
you PAYS your money and you takes your choice
;
take care of the PENCE and the pounds will take care of themselves
;
it takes TWO to make a bargain
;
it takes TWO to make a quarrel
;
it takes TWO to tango
.
It TAKES one to know one
1977National Journal
9 July 1090
In the it-takes-one-to-know-one category. Lester L. Kinsolving, among other jobs, is serving as national editor for the Panax Corp. newspapers.
1988
Christian Science Monitor
15 Apr. 19
The extraordinarily sociable person might not even recognize a shy person on sight—it takes one to know one, or even notice one.
1997
Buffalo News
27 Aug. 9D
We hear that a local dude discourages his wife from buying antiques by saying, ‘It takes one to know one.’
similarity and dissimilarityA TALE never loses in the telling
Also used in the phrase to
lose
(or
grow
)
in the telling:
frequently implying exaggeration.
1541
Schoolhouse of Women
A4
V
What soeuer commeth to memorye Shall not be loste, for the tellinge.
1581
Stationers' Register
(1875) II. 388 A good tale cannot to[o] often be Tolde.
1609
MS
(Trinity College, Cambridge) 121
Tales lose nothing by the cariadge.
1721
Scottish Proverbs
44
A Tale never loses in the telling. Fame or Report .. commonly receives an Addition as it goes from hand to Hand.
1907
Spectator
16 Nov. 773
A story never loses in the telling in the mouth of an Egyptian.
1954
White Wand
15
No doubt Antonio was telling the story to his fellow-gondoliers and it would lose nothing in the telling.
1979
Last Enchantment
19
Like all strange tales, it will grow with the telling.
rumour
lose
(or
grow
)
in the telling:
frequently implying exaggeration.
1541
Schoolhouse of Women
A4
V
What soeuer commeth to memorye Shall not be loste, for the tellinge.
1581
Stationers' Register
(1875) II. 388 A good tale cannot to[o] often be Tolde.
1609MS
(Trinity College, Cambridge) 121
Tales lose nothing by the cariadge.
1721
Scottish Proverbs
44
A Tale never loses in the telling. Fame or Report .. commonly receives an Addition as it goes from hand to Hand.
1907
Spectator
16 Nov. 773
A story never loses in the telling in the mouth of an Egyptian.
1954
White Wand
15
No doubt Antonio was telling the story to his fellow-gondoliers and it would lose nothing in the telling.
1979
Last Enchantment
19
Like all strange tales, it will grow with the telling.
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