Were it a wolf it would spring at your throat.
More French Proverbs:
A fool is always beginning.French
The miser and the pig are of no use till dead.
French
When the daughter dies, the son-in-law is dead as well.
French
He is a fool who makes his physician his heir.
French
Who eats capon, capon comes to him.
French
Better ten people hurt than one dead.
French