XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.puzzles
From: wugi@brol.invalid

Op 5/04/2024 om 12:10 schreef HenHanna:
>
> The phrase   "Eat to live, Not live to eat"
>                         is an example of antimetabole.
>
> Here's why: -- Antimetabole involves the repetition
>                    of the same words in a reversed  order.
>
>
> Antimetabole:
>
> -- Those who can, do. Those who can't, criticize.  (George Bernard Shaw)
>
> -- Silence is golden, speech is silver.   (Proverb)

Those are not the same form.
I like this one, similar:

Perdre sa vie pour la gagner. (work ethics)


> -- We live to learn, and learn to live.    (Latin Proverb)
>
> -- "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (Shakespeare's Macbeth)

Des chercheurs, on les trouve. Des trouveurs, on les cherche. (R&D)

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