"expression" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Plautus' proverbs and proverbial expressions number into the hundreds.
- "Ordnung muss sein" is a German proverbial expression which translates as "there must be order."
- The former is a short narrative for a shorth myth or proverbial expression and is equivalent to a verb.
- It is just that, to employ a proverbial expression, he does not practise what he preaches.
- It has passed into proverbial expressions.
- Sometimes it is difficult to draw a distinction between idiomatic phrase and proverbial expression.
- This is a proverbial expression meaning to be shipwrecked.
- It was considered "the farthest voyage" according to an ancient Greek proverbial expression, the easternmost location in that society's known world, where the sun rose.
- A similar form is proverbial expressions ("to bite the dust").
- This expression has become a familiar proverbial expression; and it has also found its way into American legal writing, as in:
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