You cannot flay the same ox twice一頭牛不能剝兩次皮。

    The cow that's first up gets the first of the dew.早起母牛先得露。

    Not all butter that the cow yields.母牛所產的未必全是黃油。

    Many good cows have evil calves.很多好母牛，會生壞小犢（虎父生犬子）。

    You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.凡事難兩全。魚與熊掌不可兼得

    Old oxen have stiff horns.牛老角硬。

    The ox is never woe, till he to the harrow go.掛耙去耕地，牛才知辛苦。

    The ox when weariest treads surest.牛困走得穩

    The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.有時不愛惜，失后徒嘆息。

    a young ox learns to plough from an older one：小牛向老牛學習耕地（喻老手和新手間的師徒關系）

    An ox is taken by the horns, and the man by the tongue. 牛因角被執，人因舌陷身。

    He that will have his farm full, must keep an old cock and a young bull.農家想富裕，壯牛老公雞。

    If the ox falls, whet your knife：牛一倒，快磨刀；人遭難，眾人踩。

    Why buy the cow when the milk is free. 何必為了一棵樹而放棄整片森林

    A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to the rich. 窮人眼中的一只羊，貴似富人一頭牛。