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Studies reveal that for most people the old saw is all too true: Money won't buy you happiness.
Part of the reason for his success is the way he modifies the old saw, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
She proved the saw that behind every great man is an even greater woman.
Once again, that old saw "Less is more" applies.

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saw | American Dictionary

saw
us/sɔ/

saw (SEE)

past simple of see
saw
noun[ C ]
us/sɔ/

sawnoun[C] (TOOL)

a tool that has a blade with sharp points along one edge, used for cutting hard materials, such as wood or metal:
a circular saw
a hand-held saw
saw
verb[ I/T ]
us/sɔ/past tensesawed | past participlesawnus/sɔn/sawed

sawverb[I/T] (USE TOOL)

to cut with a saw:
[ M ]I sawed off the end of the plank.

Examples of saw

saw
In a second experimental phase, all children saw a bucket containing a novel object, and two visible objects - one familiar and one novel.
This ensured that all participants saw all conditions but no single participant saw two variants of the same item set.
Thus, each subject saw 96 experimental picture-word pairs plus 96 filler picture-word pairs.
Nurses and patients saw a difference between nurse practitioners and doctors which was mainly related to consultation style, accessibility and length of consultation.
He saw it simply as the basis for better care.
We saw above that the number of elderly individuals who depended on poor relief increased over the course of the eighteenth century.
They enjoyed drinking, saw its positive benefits, particularly that it was relaxing, and valued their social lives, which drinking was a part of.
I saw that she was proud of herself for coming up with such an elegant solution to her intimidating problem.
The following years, moreover, arguably saw the law shed its associations with the gentry and aristocracy that had been characteristic of earlier decades.
In earlier sections we already saw certain typological results emerge.
It arose in the wake of punk, which sought to sweep away what its proponents saw as the empty virtuosity of rock dinosaurs.
Sometimes it is not even specified whether the person who saw the vision was awake or asleep.
We saw from our plots what real estate prices were doing, that they behaved very smoothly through time, unlike stock prices.
The managers and owners interviewed all saw themselves as supplying a standard service and competing on price, as agencies.
Regulators saw the agencies' analysis as a straightforward, putatively objective framework for the regulation of financial institutions' exposure to credit risk.
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