old saw
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To adapt the old saw, you can lead a horse to a vaccine but you can’t make it take one.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
As the old saw goes, the best time to get into memory stocks is when things go from bleak to merely awful, and the best time to get out is when gross margins are peaking.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
It reminds me of the old saw that it takes years to build a reputation and only a few minutes to destroy it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
The old saw in presidential campaigns was: which candidate would you rather have a beer with?
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024
When Zita, then thirty years old, saw the footage of him on television, she said: “It is not his beard. There is something bothering about his eyes. He is a hopeless, broken man.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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