antiproverb

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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"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."
"But for every proverb there is an antiproverb ("Too many cooks spoil the broth" vs. "Two heads are better than one," and so on)."

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

antiproverbs (plural) anti-proverb (alternative)

malaphor antijoke

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