Talk:proverbs hunt in pairs
I can't find any citations for this, same as when it was requested for verification back in Oct 2008 (it's still on the RfV page as of now, but nobody has commented since November). I think it should be deleted; I'll nominate when I've checked the various other alternate forms. 75.215.129.58 (really, User:JesseW/not logged in) 20:30, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
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I can't find any supporting quotations for either sense (and am not quite sure what sense2 means) in google news, google books, or google scholar. I tried other literary and academic searches and still came up with nothing. Doesn't look good, but somehow I still think I've heard this phrase before. -- WikiPedant 05:00, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- I can find exactly three citations in b.g.c. and scholar for proverbs come in pairs. DCDuring TALK 10:20, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- The idea is fairly common, but there doesn't seem to be any one form that dominates. DCDuring TALK 10:29, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
- Right, DC, now I am finding some variants out there -- proverbs run in pairs, proverbs go in pairs. I'll search around for a while and then try to straighten this out with some quotations and redirects. -- WikiPedant 17:03, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I created a new base entry--proverbs run in pairs--for this saying (with a long list of alternative forms) and changed proverbs hunt in pairs to an alternative form entry. In the process, I removed the rfv tag and dropped the weird and obviously inappropriate 2nd sense ("every law has a defense") added by an anon back in 2006. -- WikiPedant 04:29, 8 November 2008 (UTC)