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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Category:Proverbs - Wikipedia

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  4. List of English proverbs - Wikipedia

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  6. Proverb - Wikipedia

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    [191] [192] The Reggae artist Jahdan Blakkamoore has recorded a piece titled Proverbs Remix. The opera Maldobrìe contains careful use of proverbs. [193] An extreme example of many proverbs used in composing songs is a song consisting almost entirely of proverbs performed by Bruce Springsteen, "My best was never good enough". [194]

  7. Paremiography - Wikipedia

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    For example, there has been a project to collect proverbs from multiple generations of French speakers in Belgium. [7] There has been a call for collecting and documenting the proverbs of undocumented languages, especially those that are endangered (Himmelmann 1998), as part of the broader task of language documentation. However, when scholars ...

  8. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    Example of dog Latin humor. sola scriptura: by scripture alone: The formal principle of the Protestant Reformation and one of the five solas, referring to the Protestant idea that the Bible alone is the ultimate authority, not the Pope or tradition. sola nobilitat virtus: virtue alone ennobles: Similar to virtus sola nobilitas

  9. Colognian proverbial expressions - Wikipedia

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    Colognian has a set of proverbs. [1] Many of them can be used in proverbial expressions. They often function similar to idioms inside sentences [2] without really being ones. They can also be used standalone, or as complete entities in dialogs. For example, someone missed something because he was not informed and says: Wä et hät jewoß… [3]