Definitionn. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
Last update: September 10, 2015
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To do things "railroad fashion" is now the byword; and it is worth the while to be warned so often and so sincerely by any power to get off its track. [Please select]
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"--for this had grown a byword through the town." [Please select]
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"I'm not sure of what you mean by a byword."' [Please select]
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Your name's a byword for all that's square an' big an' splendid. [Please select]
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How is it that I haven't been the mock and byword of Europe. [Please select]
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It was a byword that Vigo minded no man's ire but the duke's.' [Please select]
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Not so with young Donald, however--wherefore it was a byword in Port Agnew that Donald was his father's son, a veritable chip of the old block. [Please select]
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