n. 谚语, 俗话, 笑柄

[ noun ]
a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
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Byword \By"word`\, n. [AS. b["i]word; b["i], E. by + word.]
1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general
currency.

I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. --Bacon.

2. The object of a contemptuous saying.

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. --Ps.
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