Absence makes the heart ___ fonder.. All work and no play makes Jack a dull ___... Better the devil you know ___ the devil you don't know.. Discretion is the better part ___ valor.. Earl
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1 A _ penny always turns up
2 A bird in the hand is worth _ in the bush
3 A chain is no stronger than its weakest _
4 A fool and his money _ soon parted
5 A friend in need is a _ indeed
6 A man is known by _ friends
7 A man is known by the company _ keeps
8 A man's home _ his castle
9 A rolling stone gathers _ moss
10 A stitch _ time saves nine
11 A woman's place is in the _
12 A woman's _ is never done
13 Absence makes the heart _ fonder
14 Actions speak louder _ words
15 After a storm comes _ calm
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1 All good things must come to an _
2 All is fair in love _ war
3 All roads lead _ Rome
4 All that glitters is _ gold
5 All the world _ a lover
6 All work and no play makes Jack a dull _
Trang 27 All's well that ends _.
8 An apple a _ keeps the doctor away
9 Appearances _ deceptive
10 April showers brings _ flowers
11 As soon as man is born _ begins to die
12 As you make your bed, so must _ lie in it
13 As you sow, so shall _ reap
14 Ask no questions and hear _ lies
15 Bad news travels _
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1 Barking _ seldom bite
2 Beauty is _ skin-deep
3 Beggars can't _ choosers
4 Better late _ never
5 Better _ safe than sorry
6 Better die with honor than live _ shame
7 Better the devil you know _ the devil you don't know
8 Better to _ alone than in bad company
9 Birds _ a feather flock together
10 Blood _ thicker than water
11 Boys will _ boys
12 Business _ pleasure
13 Business _ business
Trang 314 Charity begins _ home.
15 Christmas comes but _ a year
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1 Cleanliness is next _ godliness
2 Crime does _ pay
3 Curiosity killed _ cat
4 Dead men have _ friends
5 Dead men tell _ tales
6 Death is the _ leveler
7 Diligence is the mother of _ fortune
8 Discretion is the better part _ valor
9 Divide _ rule
10 Do as I say, and _ as I do
11 Do not wear out _ welcome
12 Do unto others as you would like _ to do unto you
13 Don't count your chickens _ they are hatched
14 Don't cut off your nose to spite _ face
15 Don't go near the water until you learn _ to swim
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1 Don't put all your eggs in _ basket
2 Don't wash _ dirty linen in public
3 Early to bed and early to _, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
4 Easier said _ done
Trang 45 Every bird loves to _ himself sing.
6 Every dog _ his day
7 Every family has a skeleton _ the cupboard
8 Every man _ his faults
9 Every man _ his price
10 Every man _ his own worst enemy
11 Every picture tells a _
12 Experience is the _ teacher
13 Experience is the mother _ wisdom
14 Failure _ success
15 Faith will _ mountains
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1 Familiarity _ contempt
2 Fear is stronger _ love
3 Fear of death is worse _ death itself
4 Fight fire _ fire
5 Finders keepers, _ weepers
6 First come, _ served
7 First things _
8 First think, and _ speak
9 Fools rush _ where angels fear to tread
10 Garbage in, garbage _
11 Give credit _ credit is due
Trang 512 Give him an inch and he'll _ a yard.
13 Give _ devil his due
14 God helps them _ help themselves
15 Good fences _ good neighbors
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1 Goodness is better _ beauty
2 Great minds _ alike
3 He is the _ general who makes the fewest mistakes
4 He that is master of himself, will soon be master of _
5 He that _ nothing, doubts nothing
6 He that plants a tree plants _ posterity
7 He who hesitates _ lost
8 Honesty is the _ policy
9 If a job's worth doing, it's worth _ well
10 Ignorance _ bliss
11 Ignorance of the law excuses _ man
12 In for a penny, _ for a pound
13 It is _ to be on the safe side
14 It is no use crying _ spilt milk
15 It never rains, but _ pours
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1 It takes _ to tango
2 Jack of _ trades, master of none
Trang 63 Keep your mouth shut and your _ open.
4 Laughter is the _ medicine
5 Let bygones _ bygones
6 Let sleeping dogs _
7 Let _ buyer beware
8 Let the dead _ their dead
9 Life is just a _ of cherries
10 Lightning never strikes _ in the same place
11 Like father, like _
12 Like mother, like _
13 Live _ learn
14 Live and _ live
15 Look after number _
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1 Look before _ leap
2 Look on _ bright side
3 Love conquers _
4 Love _ blind
5 Love makes the _ go round
6 Love sees _ faults
7 Love will _ a way
8 Make hay while the _ shines
9 Man cannot _ by bread alone
Trang 710 Many hands _ light work.
11 Marriages _ made in heaven
12 Might _ right
13 Mind your _ business
14 Money is the root of _ evil
15 Money _ everything
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1 Necessity is the _ of invention
2 Never judge _ appearances
3 Never _ a gift horse in the mouth
4 Never _ your liquor
5 Never _ die
6 Never speak _ of the dead
7 Never too _ to learn
8 Never too late _ repent
9 No man can serve _ masters
10 No man _ indispensable
11 No news _ good news
12 No pain, _ gain
13 Nothing is certain _ death and taxes
14 Nothing succeeds _ success
15 Nothing ventured, _ gained
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Trang 81 Old habits _ hard.
2 Old soldiers never _, they simply fade away
3 One _ turn deserves another
4 One man's loss is another man's _
5 Opportunity seldom knocks _
6 Out of sight, _ of mind
7 Patience _ a virtue
8 Penny wise, _ foolish
9 Practice _ perfect
10 Practice what _ preach
11 Prevention is better _ cure
12 Rain, rain, go away, come _ another day
13 Rats desert a sinking _
14 Revenge _ sweet
15 Robbing Peter _ pay Paul
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1 Scratch my back and _ scratch yours
2 Seeing _ believing
3 Silence _ golden
4 Something is better _ nothing
5 Spare the rod and spoil _ child
6 Speak when you _ spoken to
7 Still waters run _
Trang 98 Strike while the iron is _.
9 Sweet things are _ for the teeth
10 The best _ first
11 The best of friends _ part
12 The best things in life are _
13 The bigger they are, the _ they fall
14 The burnt _ dreads the fire
15 The early bird catches _ worm
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1 The end justifies _ means
2 The female of the species is more deadly than the _
3 The _ step is the hardest
4 The grass is always greener on the _ side of the fence
5 The last straw breaks the camel's _
6 The more one knows, the _ one believes
7 The more you get, the more you _
8 The pot calls the kettle _
9 The proof of the pudding _ in the eating
10 There are only twenty-four hours in a _
11 There are two sides to _ question
12 There is a time and a place _ everything
13 There _ no honor among thieves
14 There is more than one _ to skin a cat
Trang 1015 There is safety _ numbers.
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1 There's a black sheep in _ flock
2 There's no fool like an _ fool
3 There's no place _ home
4 There's no _ without fire
5 There's one law for the rich, and another for the _
6 They that dance must _ the fiddler
7 Things are not always _ they seem
8 Those who live in glass houses should not _ stones
9 Time cures _ things
10 Time _
11 Time is _ great healer
12 Time is _
13 To err is _
14 Tomorrow is _ day
15 Too _ cooks spoil the broth
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1 True love _ grows old
2 Trust is the mother _ deceit
3 Turn the _ cheek
4 Two heads are _ than one
5 Two is company, _ is a crowd
Trang 116 Two wrongs do not _ a right.
7 United we _, divided we fall
8 Variety is the spice of _
9 Virtue is its _ reward
10 Walls _ ears
11 Waste not, _ not
12 What you don't know _ hurt you
13 When in doubt, _ nothing
14 When in Rome, do as the _ do
15 When the cat's away, the _ will play
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1 Where there is no _ there is no love
2 Where there's a will there's a _
3 You can't make an omelette without _ eggs
4 You can't _ everyone
5 You can't take it with you when you _
6 You can't tell a _ by its cover
7 You can't win _ all
8 You cannot have it _ ways
9 You cannot have your _ and eat it
10 You don't get something _ nothing
11 You win some, you _ some