dicho1

¹ = adage, dictum [dicta, -pl.], utterance, wise saying, old saying, saying, saw, refrain.

Ex. But now she was beginning to wonder if there was any truth to the old adage that 'It's not what you know, but who you know'.

Ex. John Ward's dictum was that 'deprivation is as much a lack of information and the knowledge to use it as it is of the basic essentials'.

Ex. One natural strategy for reducing the impact of miscommunication is selective verification of the user utterance meanings.

Ex. Stories range from one-sentence statements we call jokes and wise sayings, through gossip to the most profound and complicated structures we call novels and poems and plays.

Ex. Chapters include drinking and moonshine, courting, old cures and remedies, fishing and hunting, plus a chapter of pithy quotes and old sayings.

Ex. 'Practice makes perfect' is a saying that can be applied to reading.

Ex. And his life confirms the famous old saw: No man is a prophet in his own land.

Ex. The importance of the right to information or the right to know is an increasingly constant refrain in the mouths of academics, the media and governments.

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* como dice el dicho = as the saying goes, so the saying goes.

* del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho = easier said than done, There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

* dicho bíblico = biblical saying.

* dicho familiar = familiar saying.

* dicho favorito = catchphrase.

* dicho gracioso = witticism, quip.

* dicho ingenioso = witticism, quip.

* dicho popular = adage, wise saying, old saying, saying, familiar saying, saw.

* dicho preferido = catchphrase.

* dicho sin hecho no tiene provecho = actions speak louder than words.

* dichos sabios = nuggets of wisdom.

* entre el dicho y el hecho hay un gran tr = There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.

* entre el dicho y el hecho hay un gran trecho = many a slip between the cup and the lip.