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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

proverbs come in pairs en · X

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of proverbs run in pairs.
    • Sometimes proverbs come in pairs, the first one providing the context, the second, the revision. 1979, Irving Howe, John Hollander, David Bromwich, Literature as Experience: An Anthology, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 325: