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Garbled Proverbs

Each English proverb has had one letter in each of its words changed. Can you type out the full proverb correctly?
For example, "Lime it honey" is a garbled version of "Time is money"
Inspiration from www.rinkworks.com/brainfood
Quiz by kiwirage
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Last updated: June 22, 2015
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First submittedSeptember 18, 2014
Times taken9,154
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Wetter gate then fever
Better late than never
Too prongs won't fake I light
Two wrongs don't make a right
She earls bard latches tie warm
The early bird catches the worm
Ease home, ease to
Easy come, easy go
Too beads art wetter thin ore
Two heads are better than one
Where's so plane lake Rome
There's no place like home
I hatched poo lever toils
A watched pot never boils
Yon read that yon saw
You reap what you sow
Won't kite she band chat feels yon
Don't bite the hand that feeds you
Don's fudge I look my ins covet
Don't judge a book by its cover
Food thinks some so these why want
Good things come to those who wait
Bester sane then worry
Better safe than sorry
Treat winds chink alive
Great minds think alike
Chat toes um mush home dawn
What goes up must come down
Ail it fain on cove any way
All is fair in love and war
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Level 77
Sep 18, 2014
Much fun! Some easier than others, but ultimately got them all. Takes some thinking, The best kind of quiz!
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Level 75
Nov 11, 2014
Agree.
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Level 65
Sep 24, 2015
agree
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Level 68
May 21, 2017
Yep. I can just picture my mum saying some of these when I was a child. "Great minds think alike"!
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Level 65
Sep 20, 2014
Interesting quiz. New proverb inspired by one of your clues: A hatched poo never toils.
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Level 55
Sep 24, 2015
I think you mean "I hatched poo lever soils."
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Level 76
Aug 3, 2021
A patched loo never soils.
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Level 54
Jun 23, 2015
Great fun quiz!! Well Done.
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Level 74
Jun 29, 2015
Very nice quiz -- thank you for making it!
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Level 65
Jul 5, 2015
Lice quit! ;)
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Level 76
Aug 30, 2015
Thin quit sill stars I sew bingo, a thing...
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Level 65
Sep 18, 2015
That kid yon jest sap?

What did you just say?

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Level 62
Sep 18, 2015
This quiz will start a new lingo, I think
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Level 60
Sep 24, 2015
Haha A could steak lake thin ill she tile in a would!
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Level 65
Sep 25, 2015
I would steal cake shin all the mile if I could?
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Level 72
Aug 2, 2015
Really cool idea! Got them all with exactly 2:00 minutes to spare.
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Level 84
Aug 24, 2015
Please accept "The early bird gets the worm." Both versions are used, but "gets" is much more prominent, based on Google results: 806k for gets, and 409k for catches.
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Level 62
Aug 24, 2015
'Gets' is not a one-letter alteration of 'latches'.
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Level 68
May 21, 2017
Well, now you know! I've always known it as "The early bird catches the worm."
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Level 61
Sep 24, 2015
witty quiz
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Level 39
Sep 24, 2015
Really nice quiz. Thanks!
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Level 69
Sep 24, 2015
The early bird catches the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese
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Level 58
Sep 25, 2015
The early bird catches the worm, but the early worm gets caught by the bird.
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Level 46
Jan 21, 2017
wow! do munch hatter that is lukes!
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Level 81
Mar 7, 2018
Challenging and fun!
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Level 69
Mar 22, 2018
This was good fun, thanks. More please!
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Level 28
Nov 26, 2018
Core sun then I carrel on donkeys.
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Level 37
Feb 15, 2019
"All's fair in love and war" should be accepted, as that's how it's usually said.
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Level 82
Nov 22, 2019
But you don't get Ali if you change one letter in All's
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Level 78
Sep 11, 2020
Another good quiz.
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Level 65
Apr 23, 2021
Please accept "The Early Bird Gets the Worm", because that is how we say it in America.
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Level 62
Apr 24, 2021
Absolutely not! How is 'gets' a one-letter alteration of 'latches'?
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Level 66
Oct 22, 2023
🙄🙄🙄
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Level 71
Sep 13, 2021
Also I'm American and I've heard "The early bird catches the worm."
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Level 79
Apr 26, 2021
Great quiz! Unique and challenging, but not too hard once I got the hang of it.
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Level 69
May 7, 2021
you could have said "thing" or "thick" for think instead of "chink"... it feels like you deliberately selected a racial slur
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Level 62
May 9, 2021
As is so often the case, feelings can be incorrect.
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Level 64
Sep 27, 2022
Why on earth would you jump to the conclusion that a polysemous word like chink is a racial slur?
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Level 72
Nov 23, 2022
What a fun quiz and a brilliant idea! Really enjoyed this one.