俚り諺げん

noun

proverb; saying

Formal or literary term for a proverb or traditional saying. In everyday speech, ことわざ is far more common.

• この俚り諺げんは江え戸ど時じ代だいから伝つたわっている。

  This proverb has been passed down since the Edo period.

• 彼かれの話はなしに