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Familiarity breeds contempt.
This means that the more you know something or someone, the more you start to find faults and dislike things about it or them.
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LONDON — Does familiarity by definition breed contempt?
In politics, familiarity doesn't necessarily breed contempt.
Familiarity does breed contempt, after all.
To paraphrase the saying, familiarity can breed contempt.
Familiarity and pennant races are what breed contempt.
The numbers bear emphasising, lest familiarity breed contempt.
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"Success breeds contempt.
Familiarity, they say, breeds contempt.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Perhaps familiarity bred contempt.
So much hate breeds contempt.
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