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This is not what a cached thought is. You are describing a rationalization. Returning a cached thought carries no implication of rationalization; rationalization, typically, requires new thinking.
If people are repeating what they were told when they asked others what the saying meant, does it count as a cached thought then?
Yes, the original reply is a cached thought. The invented rationalization is not, unless they heard it at the same time.
I'd expect anybody who is told what the proverb means to be told why it means that too.