proverb
/ˈpɹɑˌvɝb/ verb C2- To write or utter proverbs.
- To name in, or as, a proverb.
- To provide with a proverb.
He/she/it proverbs · Past proverbed · Past participle proverbed · -ing form proverbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- proverb
- He/she/it
- proverbs
- Past
- proverbed
- Past participle
- proverbed
- -ing form
- proverbing
From the library
When I perceived you, I was just asking myself whether I had not wished harm towards those poor Morcerfs, which would have justified the proverb of ‘He who wishes misfortunes to happen to others experiences them himself.’ Well, on my word of honor, I answered, ‘No!’ I wished no ill to Morcerf; he was a little proud, perhaps, for a man who like myself has risen from nothing; but we all have our faults.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the _éclat_ of a proverb.”
I guessed I’d fight through it all right on my own, my luck was a proverb in the States about ’76.
The proverb you need to go by is ‘Look before you leap’--especially into spare-room beds.”
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