one swallow doesn't make a summer
one swallow doesn't make a summer is the alternative form of one swallow does not a summer make.
Meaning of one swallow does not a summer make
Proverb
one swallow does not a summer make
- One instance of an event (such as the arrival of a single bird) does not necessarily indicate a trend.
- [T]hough one swallow does not make a summer, one engagement is apt to make several, and her boys were, most of them, at the inflammable age when a spark ignites the flame[.]1886, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 9, in Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out. A Sequel to “Little Men.”, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC
Questions about one swallow doesn't make a summer
- What is one swallow doesn't make a summer the alternative form of?
- One swallow doesn't make a summer is the alternative form of one swallow does not a summer make.
Words near one swallow doesn't make a summer in the dictionary
- one swallow does not make a spring
- one swallow does not make a summer
- one swallow doesn't a spring make
- one swallow doesn't a summer make
- one swallow doesn't make a spring
- one swallow doesn't make a summer
- one swell foop
- one tenth
- one that goes the other way
- one thing after another
- one thing and another
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