There's a similarity in the way it is pronounced and written | The phrase goes back much further; see The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Cf |
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Please note Stack Exchange is not a discussion forum | If you have an answer, it must be your definitive answer to the question at the top of the page |
Please note Stack Exchange is not a discussion forum | Maybe as english speakers, you can't see it but in Arabic it's extremely colourful |
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And it causes them to yearn for the time which was wasted | The question asks for an idiom via the idiom-requests tag and your suggestion is hardly idiomatic, and indeed introduces "tenuously" which is not in the original at all |
The lyrics to the song goes like this.
21The lyrics to the song goes like this | Please be sure to answer the question |
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Any idiom, proverb or piece of poetry suchlike? There's a similarity in the way it is pronounced and written | Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers |
Gives it an extra spice.