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You can dish it out but you can't take it. |
If you hit someone and they go to hit you back you run away. Sent in by Ian Whitehurst.
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You can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. |
This means that you cannot make someone do what they do not want to do even though it may be right for them.Even making it easy for the person to do won't guarantee they'll do it if they don't want to. Sent in By George Jarrold |
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You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
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When sailors had to be punished with the 'Cat of Nine Tails' if they were friends they could go easy on whipping them so that if they themselves had to be whipped their friend would go easy on them. |
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You've
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Sailors
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