Proverbs

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

• Flies are attracted to honey
• Vinegar doesn't taste good
•  It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands
• Honey is sweet

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.8

A fool and his money are soon parted.

• A foolish person spends money carelessly and will soon be penniless.
• You have to part your money in two stacks.
• Fools know how to part money.
• It is better to part from your money soon.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

• Wealthy men are healthy.
• Wise men are healthy.
• Someone who gets enough sleep and startswork early in the day will have a successful life.
• You need to go to bed.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.RL.4.2

One day is worth two tomorrows.

• What you have today is better than what is promised or hoped for.
• One day costs more than two days.
• If you start today, you'll finish tomorrow.
• Tomorrow is another day.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.4

All's well that ends well.

• If you feel well and the end, you will have a penny saved.
• Feeling well is important to feel well.
• If you start today, you'll finish tomorrow.
• Problems that occur along the way do not matter as long as the outcome is happy. 

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.  It's a duck.

• Something is exactly what it seems to be.
• Ducks to a lot of walking.
• Somethings look like ducks.
• If you quack, you're a duck.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is suggested sounds easy but it is more difficult to actually do it.

• Easier said than done

• Great talkers little doers

When you try to work too quickly, you usually make mistakes.

• Haste makes waste

• If you snooze, you lose

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

to be apart made you think about them even more and increased your feelings of love for them.

• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

• Love is salt and sugar

"The cat is out of the bag" means ______.

• being free.

• the bag is so big that you can keep the cat in it.

• the secret that has been told.

• letting the cat out from the misery.