We've found 227 phrases for pea (0.131 seconds):

a closed mouth gathers no feet »    One who does not speak can be certain he won't say anything embarrassing.

a dumb priest never got a parish »    (Irish) Those who fail to speak up fail to get what they want.

a leopard cannot change its spots »    One cannot change one's own nature.1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II Act i, Scene 1 (First Folio):King. Lyons make Leopards tame.Mowbray. Yea but not change his ?pots.1611, King James Version of the Bible, Jeremiah 13:23:Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe Chapter 32:End now all unkindness. Let us put the Jew to ransom, since the leopard will not change his spots, and a Jew he will continue to be.1918, Johnston McCulley, Thubway Tham's Inthane Moment:The leopard cannot change his spots, old boy.

a picture paints a thousand words »    A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!

a watched pot never boils »    A process appears to go more slowly if one waits for it rather than engaging in other activities.

actions speak louder than words »    It is more effective to act directly than to speak of action.

all cats are grey in the dark »    In the dark, physical appearance is unimportant.

all fur coat and no knickers »    Of superficial appearance and with no real substance beneath.

all talk and no action »    Speaking, promising, or boasting much, but doing little

all that glitters is not gold »    Things that appear valuable or worthwhile might not actually be so, things that look nice might not be as good as they look.

arm candy »    An attractive, seemingly romantic companion who accompanies a person in public simply so that one or both of the individuals can gain attention, enhance social status, or create an impression of sexual appeal.

as a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly »    Foolish people repeatedly do foolish things.

at peace »    Dead.

at peace »    Free of worries; peaceful.

at peace with »    Not disturbed or upset by.

BTW, Why won't you become an editor?