Shaving and caring for your mustache and beard are part of daily life for many men. It is therefore not surprising that there are many fun proverbs and expressions related to shaving, mustaches, beards, and shaving products, such as razors and soap. We have listed well-known and lesser-known proverbs and sayings by category. If you know any others, please let us know.
Beard
- To have a beard in the throat: the transition from a child's voice to an adult voice
- The wolf may change his beard but not his nature: people's character does not change quickly
- A joke with a beard: a very old joke
- Playing for the emperor's beard: playing for honor
- Quarreling over the emperor's beard: arguing about something small
- Fighting over the emperor's beard: fighting over nothing
- To make a beard of flax for God: hypocritical behavior
Mustache
- That is all right: that will eventually be fine
- To have a mustache: to be a little bit drunk
- To press his mustache: to be deliberately absent or simply not do your work
Shaving
- To shave everything with one comb: to treat everything and everyone equally
- To shave the fool with something: to mock something or someone
- If you are being shaved, you must sit still: if there is sharp criticism of you or you find yourself in a tense situation, it is better not to respond immediately or to wait calmly until it passes
There are more expressions about shaving but these relate to the shearing of sheep.
Razor
A tongue like a razor: a person who lashes out venomously with words
Soap
To bring/help/be soap: to kill someone or cause something to fail
