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How to pronounce adage in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms byword, proverb, saw
Type of expression, locution, saying

Examples of adage

adage
Adage is a joint venture formed by AREVA, a global energy firm, and Duke Energy.
From the thenewstribune.com
A village adage has it that long-lived winegrowers outnumber long-lived doctors.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The old adage that there's no such thing as bad publicity could be in play here.
From the forbes.com
Maybe the adage that all politics is local should apply to church politics, too.
From the stltoday.com
But Devine stuck to the adage that if you want a friend in that town, get a dog.
From the forbes.com
I came to Italy to test a French adage by way of an American writer, Mark Twain.
From the dailyherald.com
An industry adage says prices go up like a rocket but drift down like a feather.
From the latimes.com
It's an adage drilled into anyone who's ever put pen to paper or fingers to keys.
From the denverpost.com
The website's humor relies on the old adage that people making faces are funny.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Proverb: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
  • Advertising Age (or AdAge) is a magazine, delivering news, analysis and data on marketing and media. The magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago in 1930. ...
  • A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language.
  • A proverb or wise saying made familiar by long use
  • The part of the class where slow, flowing, controlled movements are combined to develop grace, beauty and balance.
  • [Italian adagio: "at ease"]. The second part of a ballet class: slow work with emphasis on sustained positions and on balance.
  • Ad age/What is accumulated every birthday.
  • Slow and controlled (Italian)