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proverb as in:  the well-known proverb

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    "It takes a village to raise a child," goes the African proverb.
    proverb = a well-known, short saying that is thought to communicate wisdom
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    The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.  (source)
    proverb = a well-known short saying expressing wisdom
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    I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.  (source)
    proverbial = of a well-known metaphor or proverb
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    Oh God, you're not going to have some Indian Sanskrit proverb or something, are you?  (source)
    proverb = a well-known, short saying that is thought to communicate wisdom
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    In the opinion of Hans Junior, his father was part of an old, decrepit Germany—one that allowed everyone else to take it for the proverbial ride while its own people suffered.  (source)
    proverbial = of a well-known metaphor or proverb
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    I was the proverbially overprepared student; I had to have a standby writing utensil.†  (source)
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    Proverbs 11:2. (When pride comes, then comes disgrace; but with humility comes wisdom.)  (source)
    Proverbs = a work of wisdom literature found in both the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.  (source)
    proverb = a well-known, short saying that is thought to communicate wisdom
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    Some scales aren't that amenable to the proverbial thumb.  (source)
    proverbial = of a well-known metaphor or proverb
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    There is proverbially a mystery among most men of new wealth, how they made their first ten thousand; it is the qualities they showed then, before they became bullies, when every man was someone to be placated, when only hope sustained them and they could count on nothing from the world but what could be charmed from it, that make them, if they survive their triumph, successful with women.†  (source)
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    They shared the same taste for banana beer and the same proverbs and for the most part the same territories.  (source)
    proverbs = well-known, short sayings that are thought to communicate wisdom
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    She'll just give me one of her blank looks and rattle off a proverb from The Book of Shhh.  (source)
    proverb = a well-known, short saying that is thought to communicate wisdom (from a fictitious book of this novel)
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    Like those proverbial bookish men who could not even tell types of grains apart, they do not labor with their hands, and know nothing practical.  (source)
    proverbial = of a well-known metaphor or proverb
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Proverbs as in:  from The Book of Proverbs

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Solomon's words in Proverbs, "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding," emphasizes the importance of faith in overcoming life's challenges.
proverbs = a work of wisdom literature found in both the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    My grandmother often quoted from Proverbs to teach us about the importance of kindness and humility.
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    Proverbs—eleven, isn't it?  (source)
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    "I would suggest Proverbs, 24th Chapter, 21st verse," said the old minister, with a canny gleam in his eye which Kit understood as John began to read.  (source)
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    As we ate breakfast together as a family, we would read through Psalms and Proverbs.  (source)
    Proverbs = a work of wisdom literature found in both the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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    I've kept that practice as a daily habit and especially enjoy the book of Proverbs.†  (source)
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    Dark sayings, Langdon mused, knowing this strange phrase made numerous odd appearances in Proverbs as well as in Psalm 78.  (source)
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    (BROWN turns) Remember the wisdom of Solomon in the Book of Proverbs—(Softly) "He that troubleth his own house ....shall inherit the wind.†  (source)
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    "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding," Kelley replied, quoting Proverbs 3:5-6.  (source)
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    You don't know what it is to want spiritual tobacco—bad emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-known signature of Philomicron, for the 'Twaddler's Magazine;' or a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research.†  (source)
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    PROVERBS 29:18.  (source)
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    As it says in Proverbs 22:6 (KJV): "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it."  (source)
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    Abby had not specified a Bible reading, but Reverend Alban provided one anyhow—a long passage from Proverbs about a virtuous woman.  (source)
    Proverbs = a work of wisdom literature found in both the Old Testament of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Bible
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    The proverbs say 'He who harps on a matter alienates his friend.'†  (source)
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