"old" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had also been burgled numerous times before, which rather calls to mind the old quip: just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
- The famous old quip about the weather - everyone talks about it but nobody does anything about it - is not as true as it once was.
- There is an old quip to the effect that, 'Of the 2,500 paintings done by Corot in his lifetime, 7,800 are to be found in America.'
- The old quip, 'sweet enough, are you?' sprang immediately to mind, but she repressed it.
- Perhaps even Voltaire's old quip about the Holy Roman Empire being "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire".
- This is a peculiar car with a sinister look that recalls an old quip about the Marquis: "What kind of belts come with the de Sade option?"
- Use this amount to scale up the old quip - "A billion here, a billion there, why pretty soon you're talking about real money" - and you have a decent guide to today's economic plight.
- There is no more call for Mr. Dohnanyi's old quip that whenever he conducted well, it was Szell who got the good mentions.
- From somewhere deep in his memory an old quip came floating to the surface: "An executive is a man who picks brains - others' brains."
- But recall the old quip: Nobody ever went broke taking profits.
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