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PROVERBS AND CHANCE PHRASES.
An Old Gipsy Proverb--Common Proverbs in Gipsy Dress--Quaint Sayings--Characteristic Rommany Picture-Phrases.
Every race has not only its peculiar proverbs, sayings, and catch-words, but also idiomatic phrases which constitute a characteristic chiaroscuro, if not colour.

The Gipsies in England have of course borrowed much from the Gorgios, but now and then something of their own appears.

In illustration of all this, I give the following expressions noted down from Gipsy conversation:-- _Tacho like my dad_.

True like my father.
_Kushto like my dad_.