old saw

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词形变化

old saws 复数 old saws

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A cliché, saying, or overused expression, especially a proverb or maxim.

    习语

    He's full of old saws, but he's not much for original advice.

    2017, Andrew Marantz, "Becoming Steve Bannon's Bannon", The New Yorker, Feb 13&20 ed. There’s an old saw about Washington, D.C., that staffers in their twenties know more about the minutiae of government than their bosses do.

词源

From Middle English olde sawe, old sawe, equivalent to old + saw (“a saying or proverb”).

来源：wiktionary