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• Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.From the entry drawing
• A Chinese proverb goes, "He who commits wrongdoing repeatedly will come to no good end."From the entry wrongdoing
• Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.From the entry quat
• Much wisdom has come down in the form of proverbs.From the entry come down
• An old tribal proverb remembers that shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half sorrow.2018, Victor La Cerva, Cornerstones: Daily Meditations for the Journey into Manhood and Recovery, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry shared sorrow is half sorrow
• A well known proverb says that 'who keeps company with wolves will learn to howl'.2016, Dawid Piątkowski, Impossible, →ISBN. From the entry who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl
• The grammar of Esperanto provides good opportunities to create pithy and catchy PUs, especially proverbs.2015, Sabine Fiedler, “Esperanto Phraseology”, in Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, volume 13, number 2, →DOI, page 255. From the entry tableword
• So says the inspirational Kenyan proverb extolling the power of Unity.2014 August 17, Morgana West, “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable”, in Glaston Centre, UK, retrieved 13 May 2017. From the entry sticks in a bundle are unbreakable
• Proverbs 19:2 states that it is not good to have zeal without knowledge.2014, David Wesley, A Common Mission, →ISBN. From the entry zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
• These perverbs are consistent with the cognitive view's emphasis on the theoretical import of idiosyncratic proverbs.2013, Richard P. Honeck, A Proverb in Mind: The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom, page 186. From the entry perverb
• A perverb splices the first half of one proverb, or saying, with the second half of another.2012, John R. Taylor, The Mental Corpus: How Language is Represented in the Mind, page 272. From the entry perverb
• As a gloss on this line, Partridge cites the undictionaried proverb 'A standing prick hath no conscience.'2011, Randall Martin, Katherine West Scheil, Shakespeare / Adaptation / Modern Drama, page 148. From the entry undictionaried
• The authentic proverbs are more figurative than factual, more metaphorical or personificative than matter-of-fact.2010, S. A. Ambanasom, Education of the Deprived: Anglophone Cameroon Literary Drama, page 44. From the entry personificative
• Metaphor is regarded as the most important and wide spread figure of speech in poetry and proverbs.2009 April, C. Arinola Akinmade, “Figures of Association and Sound in some Nigerian Proverbs: Examples from Ondo Culture”, in African…. From the entry paramiographer
• After hearing this proverb, Chadwick went out to see if it was true.2005, John Smithback, Fun with Proverbs, →ISBN, page 246. From the entry who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl
• Folly, like Wisdom, speaks in proverbs, but her proverbs are antiwisdom: "Stolen water is sweet."2004, Timothy R. Carmody, Reading the Bible: A Study Guide. From the entry antiwisdom
• But for every proverb there is an antiproverb ("Too many cooks spoil the broth" vs.1987, Howard Margolis, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition: A Theory of Judgment, page 92. From the entry antiproverb
• 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. From the entry proverbs come in pairs
• Final fillip in the Vice-President's study has been a boning up on Premier Khrushchev's favorite foible, proverbs.1959 July 24, “An Ounce of Prevention”, in Meriden Record, page 6. From the entry foible
• As a rule, proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things.1932, Bertrand Russell, “On Proverbs”, in Mortals and others: American essays, 1931-1935, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry proverbs go in pairs
• There is a well-known proverb, "A friend in need is a friend indeed." Americans have always been our true friends.2010, Lee Myung-bak, “Foreword”, in Jai Ok Shim, James F. Larson, Frederick F. Carriere, Horace H. Underwood, Fulbright in Korea’s Future…. From the entry a friend in need is a friend indeed
• Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly is one of my favourite proverbs directed at drivers.2009, George Epp, What I Meant to Say was, page 120. From the entry don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
• Indeed paramiographers believe that all proverbs are metaphorical.2009 April, C. Arinola Akinmade, “Figures of Association and Sound in some Nigerian Proverbs: Examples from Ondo Culture”, in African…. From the entry paramiographer
• "Sell in May, and go away" is an old English proverb, but it does have some basis in reality.2009 May 15, Ben Steverman, “Stocks: Sell or Stay in May?”, in Businessweek, retrieved 11 Oct 2015. From the entry sell in May and go away
• The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution. From the entry bleg
• Paroemiology, or the study and collection of proverbs, is a morass into which one enters at one's peril.1978, David Kunzle, “World Upside Down: The Iconography of a European Broadsheet Type”, in Barbara A. Babcock, editor, The Reversible…. From the entry paroemiology
• The proverbiologist uses syntactic, dialectal, metric, or linguistic aspects of the proverb to study its origin, spread, and evolution.1976, Dale Boesky, “Proverbs and Psychoanalysis,”, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume 45, page 539. From the entry proverbiologist
• The old Chinese proverb, I believe, is a good one.1972 March 22, Wes Uhlman, “Extensions and Revisions to the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 as Amended”, in U.S.…. From the entry give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Stockkeeping is merely an industrial application of the old proverb: "A place for everything and everything in its place."1921, “[epigraph]”, in Hugo Diemer, Meyer Bloomfield, Daniel Bloomfield, Everett Francis Dahm, editors, The Foreman as Stockkeeper: The…. From the entry stockkeeping
• "As sure as Death and Taxes", the old proverb says.1908, The Insurance Age, volume 36, page 445. From the entry sure as death and taxes
• A similar British proverb is “zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse." Zeal defines the earnestness and good intentions that remain essential to the church.2014, David Wesley, A Common Mission, →ISBN. From the entry zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
• The proverb functions as a warning to a ‘Besserwisser’, because at the end a ‘know-it-all’ will drive away even his or her best friends.2006, Arvi Hurskainen, Lotta Harjula, Maaria Ylänkö, Africa in the long run: festschrift in the honour of Professor Arvi Hurskainen. From the entry Besserwisser
• Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold?1982, Jack B. Sowards, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, spoken by Khan (Ricardo Montalbán). From the entry revenge is a dish best served cold
• Time had brought me revenge on Lionel, and as the Italian proverb says, revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.1949, Robert Hamer, John Dighton, Kind Hearts and Coronets, spoken by Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price). From the entry revenge is a dish best served cold
• The old English proverb, “Good wine needs no brush,” grew out of this custom of hanging a bush to the ale stake.1900 March 17, Janette Hill Knox, “Some Anglo-Saxon Drinking Customs”, in The Epworth Herald, volume 10, number 42, page 3. From the entry ale stake
• To quote another ancient proverb, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." Life or Something Like It is the movie designed by the camel.2004, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005, Roger Ebert, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 388. From the entry a camel is a horse designed by a committee

Meaning of proverb

1. noun A commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.
2. noun Any commonly used turn of phrase expressing a metaphor, simile, or descriptive epithet.
3. noun A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

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How do you use proverb in a sentence?

Proverb is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.”

What is a short sentence with proverb?

“Indeed paramiographers believe that all proverbs are metaphorical.”

What does proverb mean?

Proverb means a commonly used sentence expressing popular wisdom.