OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 49003

pearl of wisdom

Meanings (ES + gloss)
perla de sabiduría
A succinct, insightful saying, piece of advice, or moral precept.
"I am desolated to lose the pearls of wisdom that habitually fall from your cultivated lips," returned Haddo.
How about this pearl of wisdom after France lost to Scotland again, this time in Paris? He said: "You always lose when your opponents score and you don't."
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