Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Gallows

All criminals turn preachers when they are under the gallows.Italian, Dutch.

Either towards the country or towards the gallows.Turkish.

No armor is proof against the gallows.

Talk as you go, husband, to the gallows.Spanish.

The gallows takes its own.Spanish.

The gallows will have its own at last.

The gallows was made for the unlucky.Italian, Spanish.

To parade the gallows before the town.Spanish.

To show the gallows before they show the town.Spanish.

Two can lie the third to the gallows.German.

We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows.German, Dutch.

What belongs to the gallows does not drown.Dutch.

When every one gets his own, you’ll get the gallows.

You’ll ride on a horse that was foaled of an acorn; i.e., the gallows.