Saw advocating quiet, emotionless date saddens drunk (5,4,7,6)
I believe the answer is:
least said soonest mended
'saw advocating quiet emotionless date saddens drunk' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'emotionless date saddens drunk' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates an anagram.
'emotionless'+'date'+'saddens'='emotionlessdatesaddens'
'emotionlessdatesaddens' with letters rearranged gives 'LEAST SAID SOONEST MENDED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for least said soonest mended that I've seen before include "darning completed the more quickly in silence" , "Proverb urging silence in a tricky situation" , "Saw" .)