| proverb |
send a fool to the market and a fool he will return again (used of a person who is inclined to overdo what he has been asked to do. the saying is about those who, if they are compelled to pray, do it with such a zeal that they bang their foreheads against the ground); gentry sent to market will not buy one bushel of corn; teach a fool to bow with grace and he would fall flat on his face; force a fool to pray and he will smash his forehead against the ground (Olga Okuneva); give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself |
