| proverb |
the feet are slow when the head wears snow (hard life and old age have made one's health poor, one's attitude indifferent to everything); a cracked bell can never sound well; the bloom is off the peach (contrast: an old ox makes a straight furrow. the older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune); the bloom is off the plum (contrast: an old ox makes a straight furrow. the older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune); his dancing days are gone; he is but the shadow of his former self; hills and vales have done in the horse |
