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Proverb
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm seriously not being pedantic QM, given our recent conversation, but "Fools rush in..." isn't a proverb, it's a quote from my favourite poem, Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" which also gives us "A little learning is a dangerous thing, drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring" and "To err is Humane; to Forgive, Divine."
As far as I'm concerned, "a little learning is a dangerous thing" is also now a proverb. It certainly fits "a short, pithy saying in common and recognised use". That's TOED's definition of a proverb and I'd claim that certainly applies to the answer I provided here,too.
The key reason for my offering that answer was that - when this question first appeared on AnswerBank some days ago - it was presented in such a way that the answer had to fit the following word and letter patterns...5, 4, 2, 5, 6, 4, 2, 5. Given that, what response would you have given here?
I stand corrected QM.
If I was presented with the question in the form you describe, in all honesty, I probably would have failed to answer it at all! lol
However the answer I gave to the question here was what first came to mind, even before reading the replies.
I do agree now though, your answer qualifies and I apologise if you felt I was being picky, again!
I'm not nearly as abrasive as you think! lol