Meanings
alternative time is the great healer
- Synonym of time heals all wounds.
Time is a great healer, but twelve years is not long enough.
1914 December 9, Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 1471 more example
"Time is a great healer, Mr. Hythe; but the reminiscences of my early struggles with fate cannot be easily erased.[…]"
1913, Percy F. Westerman, chapter XXXIII, in The Rival SubmarinesSynonyms: time heals all wounds
Synonyms & antonyms
proverbSynonym of time heals all wounds.
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