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• Nobody’s fool.
One who c an take care of himself?
• Not having a leg to stand for.
Not having proof.
• Never-never land.
Ideal best place.
• No love lost between.
Dislike.
• Needle in a Haystack.
If trying to find something is like looking for a needle in a haystack, it means that it is very difficult, if
not impossible to find among everything around it.
• New brush sweeps clean.
A new bruch sweeps clean means that someone with a new perspective can make great changes.
However, the full version is ‘a new brush sweeps clean, but an old brush knows the corners’, which
warns that experience is also a valuable thing.
• No smoke without fire.
This idiom means that when people suspect something, there is normaly a good reason for the
suspicion, even if there is no concrete evidence. (‘Where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire’ is also used.)
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