Timeline for Is there an English equivalent to this Japanese proverb?
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| May 19, 2019 at 14:06 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Sam: I don't think I've ever heard anyone use "style over substance" in a context where it might be implicitly understood that "style" is actually better than "substance". So far as I'm concerned, it's always pejorative (never even neutral, let alone favourable towards choices made on the basis of appearance rather than functionality) | |
| May 17, 2019 at 22:11 | comment | added | Sam I am says Reinstate Monica | "style over substance" is also a descriptive term. it doesn't call out one as better. | |
| Apr 24, 2019 at 12:14 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @KentaroTomono: Indeed. But it's still an idiomatic usage "in this general area", in that it deals with the same explicit contrast between "appearance" and "functionality". And I have provided two examples favouring pragmatism over aesthetics, in actions speak louder than words and fine words butter no parsnips. | |
| Apr 23, 2019 at 1:45 | comment | added | user17814 | "Style over substance" means the complete opposite to what OP is looking for as Brian says. | |
| May 4, 2015 at 17:44 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Brian: True, but I did say that one's in the general area (it just happens to be "180° out" :). In both this and several other answers here the poster explicitly admits he doesn't know of any specific "saying" with the exact sense requested. And I have included pragmatist for a straight noun - plus a couple of idiomatic usages also in the same general area with similar meanings to the target expression, rather than being diametrically opposite. | |
| May 3, 2015 at 10:52 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | "style over substance " is the opposite of what the OP asked. It is the viewpoint that the proverb might remonstrate against; not what it proposes. | |
| May 30, 2013 at 23:46 | history | edited | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 6, 2013 at 17:22 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |