ext_6271 ([identity profile] wolfinthewood.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] wolfinthewood 2007-06-03 05:16 pm (UTC)

Not a proverb I knew; but that means nothing. What is slightly odd is that so far as I can see it isn't in _The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs_ (Third edition) in any form. However, now I have the clue to search under 'flies' I have been able to find it in Apperson's English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, which cites a version of it from Thomas Fuller's _Gnomologia_ (1732).
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