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What is an adage?

What is an adage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An old saying which has obtained credit by long use
  2. An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim
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Or does the thought of real cold steel in the belt of that twitchy fellow over by the reference books chill the life out of the adage?
It was the living proof of the old adage that man does not live by bread alone.
Perhaps there is some truth in that old adage about good things coming to those who wait!
Many blogs feature in their heading a maxim, aphorism, saying, adage, axiom, saw, proverb, epigram or precept.
The old rugby adage was proven correct against the Boks as the Scottish pack gave their opponents no quarter and precious little ball.
They say that the pen is mightier than the sword and he has certainly proved the veracity of that old adage.

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