Translation for '
proverb' from English to Serbian
NOUN | a proverb | proverbs | |
SYNO | adage | byword | proverb | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- As one proverb goes: "sagardoak umea ekarri, kerexiak eraman" "cider brings the child, cherries take it away".
- The "Macmillan Book of Proverbs" erroneously states that Miguel de Cervantes referenced the proverb in "Don Quixote" in 1605.
- The proverb has been attributed to African cultures.
- The host gives the first words of a fictitious proverb. Each player has to finish the proverb with his/her own words.
- Quickfire Challenge: The celebrities worked in pairs to prepare a dish inspired by a proverb.
- The "Proverbia" were also known in Wales. Asser in his biography of Alfred the Great quotes proverb 20 and possibly several others.
- The association of cherry blossoms with the samurai class was established by the "kabuki" theater which also popularized the proverb.
- Krikmann has published many dozen items on proverb study.
- It was the "Adagia" (1508), the proverb collection of Erasmus, that brought the fables to the notice of Renaissance Europe.
- "Counter proverbs" are not the same as a "paradoxical proverb", a proverb that contains a seeming paradox.
- Ford Madox Ford repeatedly quoted the allegedly Chinese proverb "It would be hypocrisy to seek for the person of the Sacred Emperor in a Low Tea House."
- "Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship" is an academic journal covering paremiology, the study of proverbs.
- From 1984 through 2021 he was the editor of "Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship", an annual journal published by the University of Vermont.
- Per a repetitive old Breton proverb, " [...] " ("Who sees Molène sees his pain/penalty / who sees Ushant sees his blood / who sees Sein sees his end / who sees Groix sees his cross").
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