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Explore passages mentioning knowledge, know. Topic suggestions use transparent word matching, not scholarly classification. Reviewed editorial meanings may also connect entries to this topic; those assignments are labelled separately from word matching.
Meaning: A result usually needs some contribution, condition or material to make it possible. The saying challenges an expectation of an outcome without a basis, rather than proving a universal account of how everything comes into existence.
Meaning: What emerges from a process depends on what was available within it. The sack image asks the reader to examine the input, without assuming that a process can never transform material or receive something new.
Meaning: An experienced person’s warning may deserve attention. The older dog’s bark is pictured as having a reason rather than being mere noise.
Meaning: An experienced person may already understand a familiar tactic or task. The old-fox image values practical knowledge, without proving that age guarantees expertise or that someone with experience has nothing further to learn.
Meaning: The saying praises familiar friends and things valued through time or experience. Its list associates age with enjoyment, without establishing that older people, objects or methods are always better than newer ones.
Meaning: The saying rejects oysters in months whose names lack the letter R. It makes the spelling of a month a simple rule for judging a food.
Meaning: Do not offer something valuable where it will be neither understood nor appreciated. Pearls and swine create an intentionally sharp contrast between value and reception.
Meaning: An unshowy appearance can coexist with a pleasing quality. Pepper’s dark colour is contrasted with the flavour the speaker values.
Meaning: A picture can communicate without a living voice. The saying imagines a still image as a silent speaker whose meaning is encountered by looking rather than listening.
Meaning: An unsuitable material cannot simply be wished into the desired result. The horn and pig’s tail make the mismatch deliberately conspicuous.
Meaning: A task can look easy while conditions are favourable. The calm-sea image reminds readers that apparent competence in a simple setting may not show readiness for difficulty, without declaring everyone unskilled or demanding that ability be proved through hardship.
Meaning: The person living with a difficulty often understands its particular effects best. Ask where the problem is felt rather than assuming an outside view reveals everything that needs to change.
Meaning: The phrase appeals to an old proverb without naming it. It borrows the authority of a familiar saying while leaving the actual words and claim unstated.
Meaning: The saying pictures someone inspecting every cloud being struck by a thunderbolt. Its warning associates intrusive curiosity with an unexpected cost.
Meaning: The saying associates quick eating with quick work. It carries a pace observed in one activity into an expectation about another.
Meaning: The saying predicts at least two days of rain when it comes from the east. Direction is made a sign of duration.
Meaning: Even a seemingly simple task can have a reasoned method. The egg-roasting image challenges dismissing a process as beneath thought, without making every minor choice complicated or defending a custom that no longer helps.
Meaning: A poorly checked calculation or expectation may leave an arrangement short of what it needs. The saying criticises careless reckoning, without making every shortage proof of foolishness or personal fault.
Meaning: The saying credits a good recorder with putting things in order. It associates a role with orderly conduct while leaving the type of recorder unstated.
Meaning: A story can gain details or emphasis as it passes from one teller to another. The phrase never loses uses exaggeration to warn about embellishment, without proving that every retelling is false.
Meaning: Do good without turning the act into a display for your own credit. The two hands picture a generosity so quiet that it does not advertise itself.
Meaning: A result depends on what was put into its source. The sack pictures a store that cannot supply something it never contained.
Meaning: The saying proposes catching a bird by putting salt on its tail. Its apparent method invites the question of how someone reaches the tail in the first place.
Meaning: Quietness may leave room for reflection, but it does not reveal how much someone is thinking. The saying favours thought over excessive speech while offering no reliable measure of intelligence or attention.