proverb
Example Sentences
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It may be recalling the old proverb: Fool me once, shame on you.
From Barron's
It may be recalling the old proverb: Fool me once, shame on you.
From Barron's
Her favorite proverb, which is included in the book, is this: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
The weak controls aren’t a good look, evoking the old proverb about the shoemaker whose children go barefoot.
I conclude not with a joke but with a proverb at the essence of most Jewish jokes: What is as whole as a Jew with a broken heart?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
