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It is not SPRING until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies
1863Book of Days
I
. 312
We can now plant our ‘foot upon nine daisies’ and not until that can be done do the old-fashioned country people believe that spring is really come.
1878
English Folk-Lore
i.
‘It ain't spring until you can plant your foot upon twelve daisies,’ is a proverb still very prevalent.
1910
Spectator
26 Mar. 499
Spring is here when you can tread on nine daisies at once on the village green; so goes one of the country proverbs.
1972
&
Nanny Says
52
When you can step on six daisies at once, summer has come.
calendar lore
The SQUEAKING wheel gets the grease
Attention is only given to a troublesome person or thing.
a
1937
in
Familiar Quotations
518
The wheel that squeaks the loudest Is the one that gets the grease.
1948
in
Home Book of Proverbs
2483
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.
1967
in Olson & Burgess
Pollution & Marine Ecology
VI
. 293
It is a tragedy that we devote more study effort to disturbed areas than to reasonably natural ones. This .. is simply a matter of the ‘squeaking wheel getting the grease’.
1974
(Commons) 17 Oct. 502
It is the old story: the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
1990
Washington Post
6 Dec. D10
Do as others have done—put heat on your state legislature and urge your friends to do the same. The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.
trouble
a1937
in
Familiar Quotations
518
The wheel that squeaks the loudest Is the one that gets the grease.
1948
in
Home Book of Proverbs
2483
I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.
1967
in Olson & Burgess
Pollution & Marine Ecology
VI
. 293
It is a tragedy that we devote more study effort to disturbed areas than to reasonably natural ones. This .. is simply a matter of the ‘squeaking wheel getting the grease’.
1974
(Commons) 17 Oct. 502
It is the old story: the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
1990
Washington Post
6 Dec. D10
Do as others have done—put heat on your state legislature and urge your friends to do the same. The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.
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