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Find proverbs, maxims, and Idioms related to ‘friendship’. For example Birds of a feather flock together. - English

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Find proverbs, maxims, and Idioms related to ‘friendship’.

  1. For example Birds of a feather flock together.
  2. _________________________
  3. _________________________
  4. _________________________
  5. _________________________
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  1. Birds of a feather flock together. – Idiom.
  2. A friend in need is a friend indeed. – Latin Proverb.
  3. A friend's eye is a good mirror. – Irish Proverb.
  4. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Grace Pulpit.
  5. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. – Aesop
  6. A friend will tell you things you don't want to tell yourself – Frances Ward Weller.
  7. Friends are relatives you make for yourself. – Eustache Deschamps.
  8. A friend accepts us as we yet help us to be what we should. – Author Unknown.
  9. Friends are like walls. Sometimes you lean on them, and sometimes it's just good knowing that they are there. – Author Unknown.
  10. A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg, even if you are half-cracked – Author Unknown.
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Until the sun sets, the old woman cannot step out of her house.


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The ship with its crew ___ sailing good.


______ on the flute, Krishna returned it.


Find out the anagrams. Use a pair of phrases as clues.

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flower garden
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aerial bed
busy sill
window house
foot shine
compound fall

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dinner

marble

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tennis

dog

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recent

hotel

table

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boy

       
       
       
       

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