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Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.
Much Old Testament poetry is based on parallelism: the same thing said twice, but in slightly different ways (Fowler describes this as pleonasm). [1] However, modern biblical study emphasizes that there are subtle distinctions and developments between the two lines, such that they are usually not truly the "same thing".
A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. [1] In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying. For example: John said: "I saw Mary today".
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"Oh, the vision thing", said by George H. W. Bush, responding to concerns that his campaign lacked a unifying theme. [22] "Read my lips: no new taxes", said by George H. W. Bush during the 1988 U.S. presidential election. [23] Bush would famously agree to a tax increase as part of a deficit-reduction deal during his actual presidency.
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A purported prediction stated as if it was made before the event it describes, while in fact being made thereafter. vel non: or not: Summary of alternatives, e. g., "this action turns upon whether the claimant was the deceased's grandson vel non." velle est posse: to be willing is to be able: Non-literally, "where there is a will, there is a way".