A bleating sheep loses a bite
Those who talk too much may miss an important opportunity:
“He said something about a bleating sheep losing a bite; but I should
think this young man is not much of talker” (Ted Hughes,
Tom Brown at Oxford,
1861). the proverb was first recorded in1599, with
wording closer to that of the variant form.
Variant of this proverb: the sheep that bleats loses a mouthful.
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