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For questions about English proverbs, well-known sentences, often with a literal as well as a figurative meaning, which are appropriate for certain situations.
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"Is for every proverb there an opposite one?" Does that question sound natural?
The best and most natural way of expressing these, to me, is:
"For every proverb, is there an opposite one?"
"Why, for every proverb, is there an opposite one?"
or:
"Why is there, for every prove …
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What's the English saying for "That the ancestors are successful is inferior to that the des...
Western culture in general is less prone to ancestor-worship than the Chinese culture. And at least until recently, the above maxim would not have even been considered.
The "English way" has always t …
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