A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
Saying that gives advice, usually as a metaphor.
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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 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.
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.
A widely known, fixed sentence, that expresses a maxim or a wisdom in a short and concise way.
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.
6 For I have never given in to that ancient and much-praised proverb :
7 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:
15 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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