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as_the_saying_goes
as the saying goes
English
Phrase
- Used before or after saying an apt proverb, adage, cliché etc.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
Translations
said as a lead to a proverb or similar
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