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saying (iou)



saying noun. ME.
[from SAY verb1 + -ING1.]
The action of SAY verb1; utterance, enunciation; recitation. ME.
go without saying be too well known or obvious to need mention. there is no saying it is impossible to know.
J. Heywood Saying and doying, are twoo thinges, we say. I. Murdoch Daily tasks of a priestly kind like the saying of a liturgy.
A thing said; esp. a thing said often or by a well-known person; an adage, a proverb, a maxim; a quotation. ME.
as the saying goes, as the saying is: used to accompany a proverb or cliche.
G. Sayer Such sayings as: 'Resist not evil.'