adage
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- n a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- Realistically appraising the degrees of their own recovery and the hazard of relapse under pressure, they confirmed the adage "It takes one to know one.
- As Bush likes to say, quoting the old political adage, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
- An old railroad adage holds that "the faster a passenger train moves, the more other traffic is retarded.