PROVERBS GETTING OUT OF DATE
Kcoent events have played havoc with English proverbs, and it looks as if someone will soon have to get busy making a complete new set, remarks a recent writer. "As safe or as sure as houses” obviously has lost its moaning; so. too, in these days of electricity, has “Make hay while the sun shines.” For some time it lias been possible to make “silk purses out of sow’s ears,” and certainly tho people of England's Newcastle would be delighted to see coals transported there just now.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 2
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92PROVERBS GETTING OUT OF DATE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 2
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