Good fences make good neighbours

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• good fences make good neighbours — This means that it is better for people to mind their own business and to respect the privacy of others.  ( Good fences make good neighbors is the American English spelling.) …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• good fences make good neighbours — 1640 E. ROGERS Letter in Winthrop Papers (1944) IV. 282 A good fence helpeth to keepe peace between neighbours; but let vs take heed that we make not a high stone wall, to keepe vs from meeting. 1815 H. H. BRACKENRIDGE Modern Chivalry (rev. ed.)… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• good fences make good neighbours —    This means that it is better for people to mind their own business and to respect the privacy of others.    ( Good fences make good neighbors is the American English spelling.) </p>   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• good — see if you can’t be good, be careful a good beginning makes a good ending there’s many a good cock come out of a tattered bag no good deed goes unpunished he is a good dog who goes to church the good die young …   Proverbs new dictionary

• Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …   Proverbs new dictionary

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• fence — see good fences make good neighbours the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence …   Proverbs new dictionary

• neighbour — see what a neighbour gets is not lost good fences make good neighbours …   Proverbs new dictionary