Both Uses of
proverb
in
The Idiot
- It so happened that Prince S—— introduced a distant relation of his own into the Epanchin family—one Evgenie Pavlovitch, a young officer of about twenty-eight years of age, whose conquests among the ladies in Moscow had been proverbial.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- his story proves the truth of the Russian proverb that 'happiness is the right of certain classes!'†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(proverb) a short saying -- typically well-known and accepted by many as offering good advice