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to go for wool and come home shorn

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  • many go out for wool and come home shorn — Many seek to better themselves or make themselves rich, but end by losing what they already have. 1599 J. MINSHEU Dialogues in Spanish 61 You will goe for wooll, and returne home shorne. 1612 T. SHELTON tr. Cervantes’ Don Quixote I. vii. To… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • home — see home is home, as the devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session home is home though it’s never so homely home is where the heart is charity begins at home curses, like chickens, come home to roost …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • wool — see many go out for wool and come home shorn much cry and little wool …   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

  • go — see go abroad and you’ll hear news of home go further and fare worse easy come, easy go light come, light go quickly come, quickly go he that would go to sea for pleasure, would go to hell for a pastime …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • shear — see God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb many go out for wool and come home shorn …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • many — see many a little makes a mickle many a mickle makes a muckle there’s many a slip between cup and lip many are called but few are chosen many hands make light work there’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • Domestic sheep — taxobox name = Domestic sheep status = DOM image width = 250px image caption = A research flock at U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Bovidae… …   Wikipedia

  • Vicuña — Taxobox name = Vicuña status = LC status system = iucn3.1 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Camelidae genus = Vicugna species = V. vicugna binomial = Vicugna vicugna binomial… …   Wikipedia

  • Angora rabbit — The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft hair. The Angora is one of the oldest types of domestic rabbit, originating in Ankara, Turkey, along with the Angora cat and Angora goat. The rabbits were popular pets with …   Wikipedia

  • Goat — Billy goat redirects here. For the Lance Corporal in the Royal Welsh, see William Windsor (goat). For the urban legend, see Curse of the Billy Goat. This article is about the domesticated species. For other species, see Capra (genus). For other… …   Wikipedia

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