Sentence examples similar to repeated saw from inspiring English sources

NHS veterans repeated the old saw that the NHS is the closest thing Britain has to a national religion.

And he repeated his old saw: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun".

Just last month Robert M. Parker Jr., the wine critic, repeated the old saw when he wrote in his column in Business Week, "Red Burgundy is the ultimate minefield of the wine world — notoriously unreliable, often disappointing, and rarely living up to its illustrious reputation".

My all-time favorite Eleanor Gould query was on Christmas Gifts for Children: the writer had repeated the old saw that every Raggedy Ann doll has "I love you" written on her little wooden heart, and Eleanor wrote in the margin that it did not, and she knew, because as a child she had performed open-heart surgery on her rag doll and seen with her own eyes that nothing was written on the heart.

While Yale students sometimes repeat popular saws about Justice Thomas, our attention ought to be focused on his now-considerable body of work.

Whilst the initial chart would suggest that negligible mass was detected and that the traces were flat lined, however, when the scale was adjusted a repeated and conserved saw-tooth pattern was observed, indicative (at least in time) of some transient mass deposition, probably constituents of diluted vapour phase or water vapour entering the chamber.

As predicted, nominal mass was detected in the range <200 ng/cm in 1 hour; however, a distinct and repeated saw-tooth pattern was observed in the real-time trace.

He repeats the old saw, usually ascribed to Winston Churchill: "You can count on Americans to do the right thing after they've exhausted all the other possibilities".

LaPorte, who more than once repeats the old saw about Spielberg's immaturity ("Everyone knew Spielberg had a short attention span"), winds up with a summary that is superficial toastmaster stuff: "DreamWorks was a failure of expectation, one that resulted from all of the relentless hype.... Spielberg had so long been considered infallible that he seemed to believe it himself.

This is hardly the picture of prosperity painted by those who continue to repeat the old saw that World War II "got us out of" the Great Depression.

When he was asked again if anyone in the White House knew the substance of what Orszag was going to say, he repeated the same formulation: "Nobody that I'm aware of saw the column before".