good wine needs no bush
English
editEtymology
editFirst recorded in the epilogue to As you Like it by William Shakespeare: "If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, ’tis true, that a good play needes no Epilogue." Here, the term bush denotes a branch or bunch of ivy formerly hung as a vintner’s sign in front of a tavern.[1]
Proverb
editTranslations
editsomething good does not need to be advertised
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