The proof of the pudding is in the eating
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating on the fifth-season finale of “The Great British Baking Show.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2018
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, as the saying goes, and parents and students are voting with their feet.
From Washington Times • Apr. 26, 2017
Essence of his philosophy is indicated in the proverb: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
From Time Magazine Archive
The proof of the pudding is in the eating and not in what people say.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating"; and those wonderful old songs are too wild and lifelike to have had their origin in the eighteenth century.
From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur
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