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A crisis in the family makes you realise the old adage that life is not a dress rehearsal.
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Until recently, I pictured him as some one whose life confirmed the old adage about the good dying young.
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Does the student follow the old adage that to read and paraphrase one book is plagiarism but to use two is research?
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Perhaps the future lies in the compromise of adopting the old management accounting adage: different costs for different purposes.
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Yet, as the old adage goes: Easier said than done.
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The oldest and truest adage of the recording world is that newer is not necessarily better.
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The old adage is the show must go on.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had a sort of dry, if unadventurous, humour in him, as suggested by that dreadful Bell's adage .
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However, the old adage that leaders don't lose elections should be seriously questioned.
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Nowhere is the showbiz adage more true than here.
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The idea of television against reductionism recalls the adage about fighting for peace, and the equivalent activity for virginity.
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The old adage is the show must go on.
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The old adage that those who try hardest succeed furthest should be made to apply.
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Yet, as the old adage goes: Easier said than done.