General truth (5)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">general truth</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for maxim that I've seen before include "Saying - inventor of machine gun" , "Axiom" , "Short pithy saying" , "- Gorky, Russian writer" , "Old machine-gun" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">general truth</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this in another clue)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for axiom that I've seen before include "Accepted statement taken as self-evidently true" , "A saying that's widely accepted as true" , "Self-evident statement" , "Generally accepted proposition" , "Maxim - truism" .)