Brueghel Proverbs

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

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