proverb
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proverb englanniksi
A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.
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(quote-book ) defined the proverb as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one’. The celebrated Spanish writer Cervantes said that a proverb is ‘a short sentence drawn from long experience’. Generally it is accepted that a proverb is a short, pithy traditional saying, which contains some widely accepted knowledge, or which offers advice or presents a moral. This present volume also contains many phrases and sayings which are not (glossary) proverbs as we use the term today, although we may still think of them as such. This situation arises because, prior to the eighteenth century it was common for the term to include metaphors, similes, and descriptive epithets. (..) The essence of a proverb lies in it being a ‘traditional saying’ i.e. something which has commonly passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. (..) In his book ''On the Lessons in Proverbs'' (1852), Richard Chevenix Trenchard says that there is one quality of the proverb which is the most essential of all: "… popularity, acceptance and adoption on the part of the people. Without this popularity, without these suffrages and this consent of the many, no saying, however seasoned with salt, however worthy on all these accounts to have become a proverb, however fulfilling all other its conditions, can yet be esteemed as such."
Any commonly used of phrase expressing a metaphor, simile, or descriptive epithet. (defdate)
A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
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A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
To write or utter proverbs.
To name in, or as, a proverb.
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To provide with a proverb.
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