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Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Tailors

Dull scissors make crooked mouthed tailors.Danish.

Four farthings and a thimble make a tailor’s pocket jingle.

Nine tailors make a man.

Tailors’ shreds are worth the cutting.

The Portuguese apprentice who does not know how to sew and wants to cut out.Spanish.

The tailor ill dressed, the shoemaker ill shod.Portuguese.

The tailor that makes not a knot loses a stitch.

There is little to sew where tailors are true.

To be like the tailor of Campello, who worked for nothing and found the thread.Spanish.