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Sunday Puzzle: Three Words, One Proverb

Listener Sherie Trakhtenbroit of San Antonio, Texas, plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Debbie Elliott.
Sunday Puzzle

I'm going to read you some sentences. Three consecutive words somewhere in each sentence are the first three words of a familiar proverb or saying. Tell me what it Example: Put out a saucer of milk when the cat's hungry. --> When the cat's away the mice will play.

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