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单词 pride goes (or comes) before a fall
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pride goes (or comes) before a fall

proverb If you’re too conceited or self-important, something will happen to make you look foolish.He said: ‘They say pride goes before a fall and it's very true.’...
  • Whether pride goes before a fall, only the turbulent, testing year ahead will tell.
  • They say that pride comes before a fall and sure enough, after trumpeting my success at virus-hunting yesterday, the first words that greeted me at work this morning were, ‘That virus is back ’.
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