List of proverbs and sayings in the Edge Chronicles collected so far by DeadlyDirtBlock, The Strange Traveler and Gloamglozer:
| Proverb | Equivalent | Person | Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| "A couple of raindrops short of a shower." | Used to call someone stupid | Raintasters and Cloudwatchers | |
| "A tilder doesn't change its stripes." | "a leopard doesn't change its spots", used to describe Heft, means that a person can't change their personality no matter how hard they try | Maris | The Winter Knights |
| "bag of leechfleas" | bag of fleas | Stormchaser | |
| "Barkworm" | derogatory manner for someone inconsequential/powerless | ||
| "Better answer with silence than with indignation" | Saying Quint acts upon | The Curse of the Gloamglozer | |
| "Crazier than a square circle" | very crazy | a mobgnome about that academic with the piebald rat conspiracy theory | The Curse of the Gloamglozer |
| "Goblin stolen your tongue?" | "cat got your tongue?"Used when someone isn't saying anything when you've asked them a question. | The Last of the Sky Pirates | |
| "Hold your prowlgrins" | Ferule Gleet | ||
| "If those ... aren't ..., then I'm a jack-stacking leafhopper" | Tweezel | The Lost Barkscrolls | |
| "In death there is life." | Tweezel | ||
| "... like a woodcat on a weezit" | It's used to describe when someone quickly jumps at an opportunity. | Bungus Septrill | The Curse of the Gloamglozer |
| "Like a headless woodcock." | "running around like a headless chicken" | ||
| "May earth and sky be with you!" | |||
| "May the spirit of the great curling-horn watch over you" | Chert to Cade before the Battle of the Farrow Ridges | Doombringer | |
| "One loose tongue can still many a beating heart." | Watch what you say in Sanctaphrax or someone will silence you for good | Welma Thornwood | Curse of the Gloamglozer, Chapter 7 |
| "Only the sky knows" | Common saying among sky-scholars | ||
| "Plain as a soot-frog in a snow-pond" | Used to describe something obvious | Old Torp | |
| "Quicker than the Chorus of the Dead at a funeral" | very quickly | Professor of Light, how quickly the academics will turn on Hax if the Great Storm doesn't come | The Winter Knights |
| "Sky-touched" | someone who is crazy. | Used to describe an academic telling conspiracy theories about rats being cooked in the refectory of Sanctaphrax. | The Curse of the Gloamglozer |
| "skycur" | used to describe sky pirates | ||
| "Sky-fortune has shown down upon you" | someone was blessed by fate | Wind Jackal to Linius Pallitax | The Curse of the Gloamglozer |
| "The smile of the hammelhorn is like the wind", | slaughterer saying | Sinew | Beyond the Deepwoods, Chapter 3 : The Slaughterers |
| "The hotter the fire, the lighter the dough" | Welma Thornwood | The Curse of the Gloamglozer | |
| "Thank Sky for that" | Quint | The Curse of the Gloamglozer | |
| "was mown down like glade-wheat before a scythe" | narration | Clash of the Sky Galleons | |
| "What is true for the woodboar is also true for the sow." | Slyvo Spleethe | ||
| "What you feel is what you feel" | Welma Thornwood | The Curse of the Gloamglozer | |
| Mudlubbers | "Bear west, you mudlubbers!". Used to get the Armada of the Dead to march faster. | Deadbolt Vulpoon (character) | Freeglader, Chapter 2: Exodus |
Maybe this can be made into a real article in the form of an alphabetical list that states the proverb, the English equivalent, who said it, when, in which book, and then links to all the animals that were used for comparison/metaphorical reasons.
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