📚 Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, phrase. ❓ Definition (proverb): Used to express indifference to an insult or abuse. ❗️ Examples: 1. If anyone ever tells you that little rhyme ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’ well tell them they are full of it. 2. We say things like ‘actions speak louder than words’, or ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’. 3. But the child's nursery rhyme is true: sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. 4. As that old saying goes, sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. 5. Remember the old saying, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic