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there's an old saying that you should let sleeping dogs lie
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As the saying goes, out with the old and in with the new.
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Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
As the saying goes, great things come in small packages.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2025
As the saying goes, ‘if Santa Claus should fail to call, bears may come to broad and wall’.
—Jesse Pound,sarah Min, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
The nuclear industry has a saying: France has two kinds of nuclear reactors and a hundred kinds of cheese, while the U.S. has two kinds of cheese but about a hundred kinds of reactors.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
As the saying goes, great things come in small packages.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Jan. 2025
As the saying goes, ‘if Santa Claus should fail to call, bears may come to broad and wall’.
—Jesse Pound,sarah Min, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
The nuclear industry has a saying: France has two kinds of nuclear reactors and a hundred kinds of cheese, while the U.S. has two kinds of cheese but about a hundred kinds of reactors.
—Anna Broughel, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Saying.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saying. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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