“But the proof is in the pudding” — I try not to be pedantic about such things these days, but this one always bugs me a bit. Puts me in mind of when I was a kid and the Christmas Pudding had threepenny bits in it… (and a drop of ?% proof brandy).
“But the proof is in the pudding” — I try not to be pedantic about such things these days, but this one always bugs me a bit. Puts me in mind of when I was a kid and the Christmas Pudding had threepenny bits in it… (and a drop of ?% proof brandy).
@Miraz That's actually a very clever back-formation that makes the wrong version of the epigram almost make sense.