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Idioms and Phrases

Here's good advice, as in A word to the wise: don't walk alone here because these streets are not safe at night . A shortening of A word to the wise is enough , as it was put by Roman writers, this phrase in English dates from the mid-1500s.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

A woman's work is never done A word to the wise is sufficient

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