proverbial

How To Use proverbial In A Sentence

• Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
• There was another pause; the proverbial dilatoriness of watched pots was never more clearly exemplified. Wessex Tales
• The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
• Plus, too many black children see school as a place where they're supposed to get reprimanded and putting black educators as main executioner; we're essentially fortifying centuries-old traditions of promoting blacks as overseer in the proverbial plantation. Jose Vilson: Why Black/Latino Male Teachers aren't as Effective in the Classroom... Yet
• I was notorious for talking myself straight into a proverbial brick wall, and that was something I certainly didn't want to do in this situation.
• The title of the movie refers to the proverbial elephant in the living room - the big problem that is ignored for so long that people are no longer able to recognize it.
• My audience certainly isn't the proverbial man in the street.
• Its "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue," were sown like seed all over the land. Benjamin Franklin
• Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. Some Private Views
• Why did it take so long before the stock exchange finally had the courage to call the proverbial spade a spade? The Financial Industry Continues to Ignore the Need for Reliable Answers