May not be as descriptive a prose as you expected | To learn more, see our |
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The question asks for an idiom via the idiom-requests tag and your suggestion is hardly idiomatic, and indeed introduces "tenuously" which is not in the original at all | The phrase goes back much further; see The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs Cf |
Provide details and share your research! "God, tell us the reason, why youth is wasted on the young" Clearly implies the young do not know the value of what they have until much later in life.
There's a similarity in the way it is pronounced and written | Please note Stack Exchange is not a discussion forum |
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Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience | Please be sure to answer the question |
And it causes them to yearn for the time which was wasted | Any idiom, proverb or piece of poetry suchlike? Maybe as english speakers, you can't see it but in Arabic it's extremely colourful |
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