antiproverb

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A humorous adaptation of one or more existing proverbs.
    — The system isn’t broken. It’s fixed.¶ Another species of anti-proverb, this one plays on the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” which seems to have emerged in the 1960s.
  2. A proverb that contradicts another.
    — But for every proverb there is an antiproverb ("Too many cooks spoil the broth" vs. "Two heads are better than one," and so on).

词形变化

antiproverbs plural anti-proverb alternative

词汇关系

相关词
malaphor

词源

Coined by paremiologist Wolfgang Mieder in 1982, anti- + proverb.
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