Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.

Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.

By all that's good and glorious.

By all that's good and glorious.

A flea in his ear.

A flea in his ear.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
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Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered;
nothing more readily received; nothing more widely dispersed.
[Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil
facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

To cut a whetstone with a razor.

To cut a whetstone with a razor.