*Qui compte sans son hôte compte deux fois = He who reckons without his host must reckon again.
Sentir l’huile = To smell of the lamp (of poetry, etc.).
Il tirerait de l’huile d’un mur = He would skin a flint, get blood from a stone. (See [Cheveux] and [Œuf].)
[Aquam a pumice postulare.—Plautus.]
De l’huile de bras = Elbow grease.
Huis
A huis clos = With closed doors; in camera.