Tired of filigrees and having a dictionary at hand, I had fun (with my wife) rewriting proverbs, locutions and other maxims.
Better to be alone than badly accompanied
turns into
Better to be alone than unaccompanied
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The clothes don’t make the man
turns into
the magpie doesn’t make the sparrow
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the more the merrier
turns into
the more we stand, the more we shout
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many are called, few are elected
turns into
many are to be peeled, few are hairy
(seems to be a kiwi proverb)
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I really like the color resulting from the use of a Payne’s grey in watercolor on a pink dictionary page background.