• great oaks from little acorns grow (the most usual form in the UK)
• tall oaks from little acorns grow

mightyoaks fromlittleacornsgrow
(the most usual form in the US)

1. Something great can come from a modest beginning.

   Don't give up on the project -mighty oaks from little acorns grow!

• little strokes fell great oaks

• “mighty oaks from little acorns grow”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
• “mighty oaks from little acorns grow”, inCollins English Dictionary.
• “mighty oaks from little acorns grow”, inCambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

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