A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
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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 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.
5 The proverb was the most ancient way of teaching among the Greeks.
1 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.
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.
6 The old adage is very good, and should be borne in mind:-
7 You're only as young as the woman you feel, goes the adage .
8 As the adage goes, though, there's no such thing as perfect security.
9 He will repeat this adage until it becomes wearisome in its monotony.
10 You know the old adage , summer bodies are made in winter, right?
11 It's a time-worn adage in politics that if you're explaining, you're losing.
12 That old adage that it's lonely at the top is exactly right.
13 The old adage about not trusting strangers held true in the bureaus.
14 To modernize the adage , to give is more fun than to receive.
15 But manifestly to our Priests and Women this adage did not apply.
16 One swallow, as the adage truly says, does not make a summer.
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