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English, 28.10.2020 07:20, taridunkley724

Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention". "Maybe not. Maybe, just maybe, there's something they've missed that's important. With patience and calm, even a burro can climb a palm." This last was one of her many Dominican sayings she had imported into her scrambled English.

Which English idiom has the same meaning as the one underlined in this excerpt?

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