death is a great leveller

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• death is the great leveller — Cf. CLAUDIAN De Raptu Proserpinae II. 302 omnia mors aequat, death levels all things. 1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 1250 Death is the grand leveller. 1755 E. YOUNG Centaur ii. Is diversion grown a leveller, like death? 1961 M. DICKENS Heart of… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• great — see a great book is a great evil great minds think alike great oaks from little acorns grow death is the great leveller little strokes fell great oaks little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape …   Proverbs new dictionary

• leveller — see death is the great leveller …   Proverbs new dictionary

• death — see death is the great leveller death pays all debts cowards die many times before their death nothing is certain but death and taxes there is a remedy for everything except death …   Proverbs new dictionary

• the great certainty —    death    Also as the great change, leveller, out, perhaps or, for the dying Charles II, secret, before or after expressing concern about poor Nellie s1 future:     The Great Certainty looms, said Mr Flawse. (Sharpe, 1978)     Here was a… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …   Proverbs new dictionary

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