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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow – William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800) [27] The labourer is worthy of his hire; It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back; The law is an ass (from English writer Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist) The leopard does not change his spots

  3. Category:English proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "English proverbs" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  4. List of English proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; List of English proverbs

  5. Category:Proverbs - Wikipedia

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  6. Proverbidioms - Wikipedia

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    Proverbidioms is used extensively in education to teach about proverbs in classrooms, in corporate creativity workshops, in teaching the deaf, and in teaching English to foreign students. The Canadian Institute of English and the Watchtower Society in particular have taken the posters to over 100 countries for this last-mentioned purpose.

  7. Proverb - Wikipedia

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    However, unlike the examples given above in English, all of which are anti-proverbs, Tatira's examples are standard proverbs. Where the English proverbs above are meant to make a potential customer smile, in one of the Zimbabwean examples "both the content of the proverb and the fact that it is phrased as a proverb secure the idea of a secure ...

  8. Category:Proverbs by language - Wikipedia

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    English proverbs (31 P) F. French proverbs (1 P) G. ... Pages in category "Proverbs by language" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.

  9. English-language idioms - Wikipedia

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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).