"easier said than done" meaning in All languages combined

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Proverb [英語]

  1. 言うことは行うことよりも簡単である。言うは易く行なうは難し。
    Sense id: ja-easier_said_than_done-en-proverb-QEE2R3Eu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): 英語, 英語_ことわざ
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          "text": "We often planned together how we could get to the north. But, as William remarked, such things are easier said than done.(Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861)"
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