Traditional saying

The answer

ADAGE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ADAGE answer page.

Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ADAGE

Every other clue in this collection answered by ADAGE, most used first.

• Saw - used 166 times, most recently in 2026
• Old saying - used 127 times, most recently in 2026
• Proverb - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Saying - used 96 times, most recently in 2025
• Wise saying - used 91 times, most recently in 2026
• Maxim - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Old saw - used 46 times, most recently in 2022
• "Time is money," e.g. - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Wise words - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
• Words of wisdom - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
• Pithy saying - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "Haste makes waste," e.g. - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Traditional truism - used 13 times, most recently in 2012
• Bit of wisdom - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Wise maxim - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• "Beauty is only skin deep," e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2013
• Bit of folk wisdom - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• "Love conquers all," e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Old maxim - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Aphorism - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Memorable saying - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Proverbial saying - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Waste not, want not," e.g. - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Wise old saying - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• "Better late than never," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "Look before you leap," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• "Measure twice, cut once," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• "Penny wise, pound foolish," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
• "Time flies," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• "What goes up must come down," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Words to live by - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Apothegm - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
• "Let sleeping dogs lie," e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Oft-quoted saying - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Time-honored truism - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• "What goes around, comes around," e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2016

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Wise saying - AXIOM, used 16 times
• Say without saying - IMPLY, used 15 times
• "___ saying goes ..." - ASTHE, used 12 times
• Traditional battlers - SEXES, used 11 times
• Say without really saying - IMPLY, used 10 times
• Saying - MAXIM, used 10 times

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