old saw
Example Sentences
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That old saw about being careful what you wish for comes to mind.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
As the old saw goes, the best time to get into memory stocks is when things go from bleak to merely awful, and the best time to get out is when gross margins are peaking.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
But to invert the old saw, the shoe doesn’t always fit.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
It reminds me of the old saw that it takes years to build a reputation and only a few minutes to destroy it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
When Zita, then thirty years old, saw the footage of him on television, she said: “It is not his beard. There is something bothering about his eyes. He is a hopeless, broken man.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
