| 单词 | old said saw | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasold said saw  3.  Of a saying or adage: that is often said or uttered by people. Frequently with old, esp.  old said saw. Now rare.Only in regional and (later) occasional historical use after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > 			[noun]		 > old, popular old said saw1529 plebiscite1637 folksay1929 oldie1959 1529    T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters Pref. f. iv/1  				Hyt ys an olde sayd saw, that one bysynes bygettyth and bryngeth forthe another. 1530    J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/1  				Ould sayd sawe, prouerbe. a1556    N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister 		(?1566)	  i. i. sig. A.ijv  				Therefore an other sayd sawe doth men aduise, That they be together both mery and wise. 1589    T. Nashe To Students in  R. Greene Menaphon sig. **2  				They reuiue the olde saide Adage. 1605    London Prodigall sig. D4  				God giue you ioy, as the old zaid Prouerbe is. 1662    J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 96  				There is another old sayed saw, That every one knowes how to tame a Shrew, but hee who hath her. 1828    W. Carr Dial. Craven 		(ed. 2)	 (at cited word)  				It's an oud said say, and a true yan. 1966    Stud. Philol. 63 124  				The time has come to be still, lest the reader invoke another old said saw that ‘Nede hath no lawe’. (old) said saw  4.  A sententious saying; a traditional maxim, a proverb. For  (old) said saw see said adj. and n. ΚΠ a1275    Prov. Ælfred 		(Trin. Coll. MS.)	 35  				Þis werin þe sawen of kinc Alfred. a1275    Prov. Ælfred 		(Trin. Coll. MS.)	 361  				Þurch saȝe mon is wis. c1320    tr.  J. Bonaventura Medit. 853  				Of salamons sawys ȝe are nat auysed. 1362    W. Langland Piers Plowman A.  viii. 124  				‘Lewede lorel!’ quod he ‘luite lokestou on þe Bible, On Salamones sawes seldom þou bi-holdest’. c1400						 (?c1380)						    Cleanness l. 1599  				His sawle is ful of syence, saȝes to schawe. c1440    Promptorium Parvulorum 441/2  				Sawe, or proverbe, proverbium, problema. 1470–85    T. Malory Morte d'Arthur  x. lxi. 519  				Euer hit is an old sawe gyue a chorle rule and there by he wylle not be suffysed. c1480						 (a1400)						    St. James Less 653 in  W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. 		(1896)	 I. 169  				Fore It is sad in elderys saw: ‘ful harde is hungyre in hale maw’. 1530    J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/1  				Sawe a proverbe, prouerbe. 1563    B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. A*.i  				And many a saged sawe lies hyd within thine aged brest. a1616    W. Shakespeare As you like It 		(1623)	  ii. vii. 156  				Full of wise sawes, and moderne  instances.       View more context for this quotation 1632    E. Robertson in  W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. To Author B 4  				How ruld with Lawes The South world is: their Rites, Religious sawes. 1709    A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in  Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 190  				We, Sirs, are Fools; and must resign the Cause To heathnish Authors, Proverbs, and old Saws. 1764    Oxf. Sausage 172  				Alone from Jargon born to rescue Law, From Precedent, grave Hum, and formal Saw! 1849    T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 635  				The great question now depending was not to be decided by the saws of pedantic Templars. 1859    F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing vii. 39  				It is an ever ready saw that an egg is equivalent to a lb. of meat—whereas it is not at all so. 1884    Ld. Tennyson Becket  v. ii. 197  				For I was musing on an ancient saw, Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. < as lemmas  | 
	
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