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]