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The old bull makes the straight furrow.

One flower doesn’t herald spring or one flower doesn’t mean spring is here.

He drinks the cold yogurt drink by blowing on it. This proverb implies that one is very doubtful of an outcome and has become overly cautious. The example of blowing on a cold yogurt drink to cool it before drinking expresses this doubtful caution. A person who has burned his tongue drinking hot milk will cautiously blow on even cold milk before drinking it remembering the unpleasant experience of previously drinking hot milk thinking it was cold and burning the tongue. The English proverb says, “Once burned, twice shy.”