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proverbs run in pairs en · X

Meanings

  1. Every proverb seems to be contradicted by another proverb with an opposing or contradictory message, such as "too many cooks spoil the broth" and "many hands make light work."
    • Moreover, all the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other. 1863, Sir Richard Burton, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains, volume 1, London: Tinsley, page 309:

Forms

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proverbs hunt in pairs alternative lexicographic
proverbs should come in pairs alternative lexicographic
proverbs go in pairs alternative lexicographic
proverbs should be sold in pairs alternative lexicographic
proverbs come in pairs alternative lexicographic
proverbs should be writ in pairs alternative lexicographic
proverbs often come in pairs alternative lexicographic
proverbs should go in pairs alternative lexicographic