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Meanings of proverb in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "saw"
Examples for "saw"
1
However, July and August still saw millions of employees left without work.
2
The second year we saw quite a bit of improvement, he said.
3
Iberia and emerging markets including eastern Europe and India saw double-digit growth.
4
Last year saw Harry increasingly focus on the issue of climate change.
5
The days and weeks that followed saw mass withdrawals of food products.
1
His history makes the adage 'innocent until proven guilty' a mute point.
2
Another adage: The more things change, the more they remain the same.
3
The entertainment industry has confirmed this age old adage time after time.
4
Today is May 1, and rarely has that adage seemed so pertinent.
5
Unfortunately the adage about what wins World Cups has it rather differently.
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But today Shoreditch is a byword for artist-catalysed gentrification and buy-to-let speculation.
2
Instead his arch nemesis became a byword for political strength and stability.
3
Why is the Department a byword among journalists for secretiveness and unhelpfulness?
4
The name of Adam Warner became a byword of scorn and horror.
5
As it is, they are becoming a byword even in London streets.
Usage of proverb in inglés
1
Then the idea of durableness is thus expressed in a Wiltshire proverb:-
2
The 'if' in verse 31 weakens the strong assertion of the proverb.
3
And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-
4
The eloquence of the last named was a proverb in his day.
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The proverb was the most ancient way of teaching among the Greeks.
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For I have never given in to that ancient and much-praised proverb:
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I do not believe the first part of the proverb, but it.
8
The uncertainty of the law under these systems has become a proverb.
9
The proverb is that truth lies at the bottom of a well.
10
Dear friend, as the old proverb has it, deceit lurks in generalities.
11
As the proverb well says: Beware the anger of a patient man.
12
But, as the proverb says, with the disease God sends the remedy.
13
Isn't there a Central Galaxy proverb about gratitude that I once heard?
14
Again the truth of that humane old proverb came home to me:
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William chose to accept the phrase as a proverb, not a compliment.
16
Man made the town, says the proverb, and God made the country.
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Proverb across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common