Timeline for Is "fortune favors the bold; cheek brings success" a popular idiom or proverb in English? [closed]
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tchrist♦ Avon Chenmunka FumbleFingers Misti |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 23:05 | comment | added | Papa Poule | The following quote is attributed to J. Paul Getty and it cleverly, I think, captures the idea without totally contradicting Matthew 5:5: "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 20:09 | answer | added | Channel Islander | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Aug 2, 2015 at 18:38 | history | suggested | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 17:40 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 15:04 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 14:38 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 11:57 | comment | added | Hot Licks | And it should be noted that the two are saying essentially the same thing. Neither expresses "no pain -- no gain". | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 11:56 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I've heard/read the first part a number of times. Not familiar with the second (though I've heard vaguely similar phrases). | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 11:30 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | In #2, you call it strong will, but it seems more like perseverence. I suggest you look for adages about perseverence. As for # 1, there are many related: No pain, no gain. For more relevant ones, look for adages about "dare", "chance", "risk" "brave", "venture". | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:51 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Fortune favors the bold certainly is. In fact, it was apparently an idiom in Latin. The earliest reference I can find for cheek brings success in Google books is a 1969 English-Ukrainian phrase book, and it appears thereafter only in foreign books of English idioms. Native English speakers have never heard of it. | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:45 | history | edited | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:44 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | Note: You don't mean "big gut", this is a big gut! ----> mozo.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/… ---> You may want to say "have guts" | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 9:38 | history | asked | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
