brueghel proverbs
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PROVERBSBRUEGHEL, Pieter the Younger (b. 1564,
Bruxelles, d. 1638, Antwerp)
Netherlandish Proverbs
BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder (b. cca. 1525, Breughel, d. 1569, Bruxelles)
Proverbs
BRUEGHEL, Pieter the Younger(b. 1564, Bruxelles, d. 1638, Antwerp)
The Pillar Biter
She has fire in one hand and water in the other
= hypocrite
= she cannot be trusted
She wraps him in a blue cloak
= she is deceiving him
Spinning one’s thread fromanother man’s wool
= cooperating
Banging one’s head against a brick wall
= to despair of
Jealous of the waterif the sun shines on it
= cupidity(greed, especiallyfor money or possessions)
Man must bow hishead to get throughthis world
= accommodation to circumstances
Putting a falsebeard on God the Father
= playing thehypocrite
