Normal Person: |
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. |
GRE Student: |
Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles. |
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Normal Person: |
Twinkle, twinkle, little star... |
GRE Student: |
Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim. |
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Normal Person: |
All that glitters is not gold. |
GRE Student: |
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly
auriferous. |
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Normal Person: |
Beggars are not choosers. |
GRE Student: |
Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted. |
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Normal Person: |
Dead men tell no tales. |
GRE Student: |
Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony. |
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Normal Person: |
Beginner's luck. |
GRE Student: |
Neophyte's serendipity. |
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Normal Person: |
Birds of a feather flock together. |
GRE Student: |
Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to
congregate. |
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Normal Person: |
Beauty is only skin deep. |
GRE Student: |
Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity. |
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Normal Person: |
Cleanliness is godliness. |
GRE Student: |
Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to
rectitude. |
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Normal Person: |
There's no use crying over spilt milk. |
GRE Student: |
It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed
lactile fluid. |
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Normal Person: |
You can't try to teach an old dog new tricks. |
GRE Student: |
It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated
canine with innovative maneuvers. |
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Normal Person: |
Look before you leap. |
GRE Student: |
Surveillance should precede saltation. |
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Normal Person: |
He who laughs last, laughs best. |
GRE Student: |
The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses
thereby the optimal cachinnation. |
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Normal Person: |
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
GRE Student: |
Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes
of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow. |
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Normal Person: |
Where there's smoke, there's fire! |
GRE Student: |
Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in
ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration. |