To lock the stable after the horses are stolen, [93]

To look for a needle in a bundle (or bottle) of hay, [13], [143]

To look for five feet in a cat, [206]

To look for noon at fourteen o’clock, [13]

To lose one eye that you may deprive another of two, [245]

To love and to be wise are two different things (or impossible), [2], [198], [265]

To mad words deaf ears, [200]

To make a happy couple, the husband must be deaf and the wife blind, [46]

To make a virtue of necessity, [18], [340]

To make an elephant of a fly (To make a mountain of a molehill), [98]