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good wine needs no bush

good wine needs no bush proverb: there is no need to boast or advertise about something of good quality.

Proverb

good wine needs no bush

  1. There is no need to boast or advertise about something of good quality.

good wine needs no bush meaning in Vietnamese

good wine needs no bush in Vietnamese

something good does not need to be advertised
hữu xạ tự nhiên hương

Origin of good wine needs no bush

First recorded in the epilogue to As You Like It by William Shakespeare: "If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue." Here, the term bush denotes a branch or bunch of ivy formerly hung as a vintner’s sign in front of a tavern.

Questions about good wine needs no bush

What does good wine needs no bush mean?
Good wine needs no bush means there is no need to boast or advertise about something of good quality.
What is good wine needs no bush in Vietnamese?
Good wine needs no bush in Vietnamese is hữu xạ tự nhiên hương. See Good wine needs no bush meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is good wine needs no bush?
Good wine needs no bush is a proverb.

Words near good wine needs no bush in the dictionary

  1. good voice to beg bacon
  2. Good Wednesday
  3. good will
  4. good willer
  5. good willers
  6. good wine needs no bush
  7. good word
  8. good words
  9. good work
  10. good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good
  11. good works

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