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diverb🔊

(obsolete) A proverb or set expression.

💬 Quotations
By this means you many define ex ungue leonem, as the diverb is, by his thumb alone the bigness of Hercules […]

(obsolete) A saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted.

💬 Quotations
Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes.