Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Plain as the nose on a man's face.[785:5]

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire;[785:6] or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.[785:7]

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.

You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.[785:8]

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.

Bell, book, and candle.

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv.

Let the worst come to the worst.[785:9]

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. v.