The leisure of the smith’s helper (i.e., from the bellows to the anvil).
You have the foal’s share of the harrow.
Laziness is a heavy burden.
You’d be a good messenger to send for death—(said of a slow person).
Better be bald than have no head at all—but the devil a much more than that.
Better the end of a feast than the beginning of a fight.
Let him cool in the skin he warmed in.
A man is shy in another man’s corner.
The pig in the sty doesn’t know the pig going along the road.
’Tis on her own account the cat purrs.