Eksempler på proverb

• Usage is illustrated by means of texts, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, lyrics, and interviews.

• In sum, these findings provide evidence of an association between proverb comprehension and mental imagery in older children and young adults.

• Participants were asked to circle the letter of the choice that best expressed the proverb's meaning.

• True blue owes its origin to a proverb true blue will never stain, which alluded to the difficulty of finding a true blue dye.

• As the proverb goes: ' politicians come and go, the bureaucrats are the ones who stay'.

• The book is unusually varied, comprising poems, dialogues, personal reminiscences, chapters interlarded with proverbs, quotes from the honoree's works, and conventional papers.

• The next three chapters are concerned with various forms of figurative language including metaphors and similes, idioms, and proverbs.

• Hence, it remains to be determined if people's mental images of proverbs truly are associated with their own comprehension.