To break the constable’s head, and take refuge with the sheriff, [212]
To bring down two apples with one stick, [339]
To build castles in the air, [18], [330]
To burn out a candle in search of a pin, [19]
To buy a cat in a poke, [2]
To cackle and lay no egg, [206], [270]
To carry a lantern in mid-day, [46]
To carry fir-trees to Norway (To carry coals to Newcastle), [338]
To carry water to the sea (or river), [46], [176], [280], [343]