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Meaning: A person who is not present can become an easy target for blame because they cannot explain or challenge the account. Be cautious about judgements made without hearing them.

Meaning: The saying places age ahead of honesty in a terse order of precedence. It can be read critically as asking whether seniority is being allowed to outweigh conduct.

Meaning: A settlement may avoid the expense and strain of a prolonged dispute. The proverb favours agreement where it is fair and workable, without making cost a reason to abandon protection, accountability or a legitimate claim.

Meaning: A small charitable gesture does not make a larger dishonest act acceptable. Consider where the benefit came from rather than letting a visible donation conceal the wrong that supplied it.

Meaning: The saying warns that anger from a powerful person may have serious consequences. Recognise a difference in power without assuming that authority makes anger justified or requires silent acceptance of unfair treatment.

Meaning: If someone has become angry without good reason, they cannot fairly demand compensation merely to restore their mood. The saying separates calming down from receiving amends, while leaving genuine grievances open to examination.

Meaning: The saying treats apples, eggs and nuts as acceptable after someone it calls a slut. It uses a demeaning label while making an unverified claim about food handled by another person.

Meaning: The saying links acting as bail with paying for it. It warns that guaranteeing or supporting another person’s obligation may carry a cost.

Meaning: A large occasion can leave some participants poorly served even when others enjoy it. The banquet image asks who has been overlooked, rather than assuming that scale or a favourable overall impression proves everyone benefited.

Meaning: An agreement should be taken seriously once it has been made. The repetition gives the commitment weight, while leaving room to examine whether the terms were understood, fair and within the participants’ ability to fulfil.

Meaning: Someone determined to punish or mistreat another can often find a pretext. Examine whether the supposed reason is fair rather than accepting it because an accusation has been made.

Editorial context: This saying endorses beating a woman. It records an abusive viewpoint, not valid advice or a justification for violence.

Meaning: This saying presents beating a woman as a way to improve her behaviour, alongside beating an animal or tree. It expresses an abusive viewpoint, not a valid instruction for relationships or care.

Meaning: The saying assigns riding in front to the person who hires the horse. It connects the act of arranging or paying for something with precedence in using it.

Meaning: The saying pictures a beggar as never taking the wrong route. It suggests that someone seeking assistance may find a possible opportunity wherever they go.

Meaning: The horseback image criticises reckless use of newly acquired power or advantage. Its description of beggars carries a contemptuous social judgment, so a useful reading should examine conduct after a change in position without treating poverty as evidence of bad character.

Meaning: Seeking food or generosity is pictured as especially difficult when others are fasting. The saying puts a request beside a setting in which the expected resource is restricted.

Meaning: Following instructions may appear to protect someone from blame. The proverb voices that promise strongly, but obedience does not establish that the instruction or the resulting action is right.