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The last is used banteringly to persons who strongly advocate their own interests.

Evil tidings travel fast, like a tuft of dry heather before the wind.

is the expression of an anxious wife or sister awaiting the return of an absent breadwinner. Another old saying has it:

This is a fisherman's proverb, and means that the rolling waves afford no shelter from the storm.