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
Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
He considers attitudes to antiquity and to change in general terms, and looks at perceptions of old traditions and proverbial lore.
The common proverbial maxims of prudence, being founded in universal experience, are perhaps the best general rules which can be given about it.
For a fan of music, like Ian obviously is, this job is the proverbial kid-in-a-sweet-shop vocational choice.
I filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue. Elson Grammar School Literature v4
Thisis onlygoing to incense the legal fraternity even more than before, andcould well come back to bite Musharraf in the proverbial over the next few weeks. Power broking in Park Lane
The teacher dropped the ball and now the kid gets kicked in the proverbial "nads" for being forthright. Minnesota Student Suspeded For Leaving Bow In Car
It was in a particular manner noted for fornication, insomuch that a Corinthian woman was a proverbial phrase for a strumpet, and korinthiazein, korinthiasesthai -- to play the Corinthian, is to play the whore, or indulge whorish inclinations. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The king's ministers and the false prophets who misled him. sunk in ... mire -- proverbial for, Thou art involved by "thy friends '" counsels in inextricable difficulties. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I cannot help but wonder if Erikson has it all figured out, or he wanders in proverbial dark a bit himself. Steven Erikson - Midnight Tides (Book Review)
She's tall, lissome and very pretty as well as being smart as the proverbial whip.
After ever-increasing amounts of verbal diarrhoea from Kinnear culminated in his new contract codswallop, the best thing he can do now is keep his trap shut in public and get on the "trombone" to try and pull us out of the proverbial. Soccer Blogs - latest posts
her proverbial lateness
But for now, while Brenda is prepared to grin and bare it, I am going to make like the proverbial pig and wallow.
His piety and wisdom were proverbial among his countrymen at an early period; probably owing to that noble proof he gave of faithfulness, combined with wisdom, in abstaining from the food sent to him from the king's table, as being polluted by the idolatries usual at heathen banquets (Da 1: 8-16). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
You can probably tell that ‘Ole ‘'s got a bit of everything - though beautifully wild and untamed in places, it won't frighten the proverbial horses, and is a must for any burgeoning jazzbo's collection.
He's got to pull the proverbial finger out.
the proverbial grasshopper
It's just so much easier to curse like the proverbial inner city sailor than to speak in a traditionally sophisticated and cultured manner.
On campus, they stick out like the proverbial sore thumb because they are the ones with the bandaged fingers.
His sense of direction was normally excellent, his feeling for country and whereabouts proverbial in the squadron. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The saga prose is straightforward and business-like, the dialogue short and pithy, with considerable interspersion of proverbial phrase, but with, except in case of bad texts, very little obscurity. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
In my little corner of the world, the month of March usually swoops in like the proverbial lion then gently leaves like a woolly lamb.
Who, then, was this Lord Chesterfield, about whom all of this proverbial fuss has been made?
It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold.
Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for. Civics: as Applied Sociology
There's always the chance that Broown getting hit by the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/badly bungled ingrowing toe nail op. Another Day Another Poll
Throughout his life he tried to force the two language families called Abkhaz-Adyghe and Nakh-Daghestanian into the same, proverbial, round hole. The Tower of Babel
Ford, on the other hand, is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, says Hazel.
Cultural trends, like proverbial buses, always come in threes.
The proverbial ‘remoteness’ of the winterly polar environment may become a trauma for sensitive persons.
Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly.
Most businesses in that situation would have tried desperately (and fustily) to adapt the existing equipment to the new requirements and eventually destroy themselves trying to pound a square equipment peg into a proverbial round hole of need.
My audience certainly isn't the proverbial man in the street.
Condemned to celibacy because married servants were expensive and inconvenient, their proverbial cupidity arose as often as not from saving to buy themselves out of service and into family life.
It is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct.
She seemed to have Lord Mark Malloch-Brown's name biro'ed on her proverbial sleeve. Archive 2007-06-24
The proverbial "threescore years and ten" was an old story with him, and even the "fourscore" awarded to the strong was receding into the distance. Boycotted And Other Stories
Conversely, an inconsistency in your essay will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.
Like the proverbial power broker who works behind the scenes, optimal hydration is one of the physical conditions most closely associated with all aspects of anabolism.
The magazine rolls out the proverbial red-carpet to welcome the young Brit into its club of fashionable skinnies with an exclusive cover picture.
We were the masters, the proverbial conquering army occupying enemy soil. THE ENDLESS GAME
Proverbially wily, coyotes are also a little demonic, and their dogginess only adds to the sense of lurking menace.
They are the proverbial cheeky London chappies, as cocky as two geezers barely out of their teens are entitled to be when blessed with an obvious talent.
+ Broon could still fall under the proverbial bus/donkey from Kabul/unfortunate complications from an ingrowing toe nail operation. Bookies Close Betting on Another Defection
She readily lent an ear to the insinuations which Scarfe, also bitterly hurt, freely let out, and persuaded herself miserably that her boy was in the hands of an adventurer who had cajoled not only the boy but the father, and in short personated the proverbial viper at the fireside. A Dog with a Bad Name
Some feminist critics have interpreted Frankenstein as an allegory of childbirth which, in this case, is the product of solitary male propagation, being the proverbial scientist's brain child.
He is the proverbial square peg in a round hole.
But it probably doesn't affect anything even remotely, except to boost the morale of the looney Fascists of Hamas, their Euro-wally supporters, et al. But that is not necessarily bad, it may encourage them to get over-confident, over-step "the mark" and come the proverbial "cropper". On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
It is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct.
In other words, the government is between the proverbial rock and the hard place.
You can have all the best tactical ideas for on-field performance but if you do not have the structure in place to facilitate the best outcomes you end up butting your head against the proverbial brick wall.
Floating, floating, floating like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl. Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word
I came by the position honestly, I assure you: after my tirade the other day about the vital importance of good lighting in a midwinter writing space, the proverbial bee seems to have remained in my bonnet, buzzily nagging — nay, demanding — that I move my studio to the brightest room in the house in genteel protest of the notorious darkness of a Seattle winter and the news in the last few issues of Publishers Weekly. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Great gifts for writers with great gifts, part III: the graveyard of book contracts past, or, a few more good reasons to buy books by first-time authors, and still more evidence that a little contact with a boo
I can't speak for anyone else, but for me my bin is cyclically in various degrees of emptiness and fullness: perhaps balancing out to both the proverbial half empty of the pessimist and the half full of the optimist.
Ah, yes: The proverbial three-hour tour.
In today's version of this argument, some high-profile and professional women have replanted the proverbial feminist flag in the reclamation of women's once-nonvoluntary subordinate status: opting to stay home with their kids. Philip N. Cohen: Madonna Turns 50: Wither Feminism?
Serving up the daiquiris was a staff so established it has become practically proverbial. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
He spins on the proverbial sixpence/one euro piece but drags his shot wide.
It can and should be the proverbial ladder to heaven - a means of bringing holiness and sanctity into our lives.
As the opening bells of "Barry Horowitz" rang, the 320-pound, ginger-bearded behemoth patted himself on the back before launching off the proverbial turnbuckle onto wack emcees. Jerell Tongson: Grand Opening, Grand Closing: Action Bronson and Mr. M-fin' eXquire Shut Down Southpaw
The Dhobi's donkey is a familiar sight as one meets him on the road still toiling as in the time of Issachar between two bundles of clothes each larger than himself, and he has also become proverbial, '_Dhobi ka gadha neh ghar ka neh ghat ka_,' The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
After two whole years of V-mail, I chickened out and wrote the proverbial Dear John letter—in this case, Dear Paul. Here We Go Again
The contrast was stark, and it made the soldiers look like the proverbial "ragbag" of the group. Stars and Stripes
And needless to say, in the tiny teahouse I was myself the proverbial bull in the china shop.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the $hit has hit the proverbial fan, Sibel Edmonds is dropping dimes like a broken parking meter. Propeller Most Popular Stories
The main attraction is just plain old proverbial eye candy in the form of glossy-lipped, apple-cheeked, exfoliated pretty boy punims peeking out from perfectly pomaded locks.
For those who may have been living under the proverbial rock, Andy Warhol is perhaps the most well-known American artist of the twentieth century.
This would also likely elicit a retreat in equity markets as the removal of the proverbial "punchbowl" would be viewed as a stock negative. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Not one to put all my eggs in one proverbial basket, I always keep my American passport, along with credit cards and my American bank card in another location – however, my Azeri bank card, along with my Azeri passport, about 30 manat ($45) and 4 straight-faced passport photos of me were in there. Archive 2009-02-01
It was a proverbial saying in the school that Annie Forest was always in hot water; she was exceedingly daring, and loved what she called a spice of danger. A World of Girls The Story of a School
No type of weak wickedness is more abominable to the proverbialist than that of pert self-conceit, which knows so little that it thinks it knows everything, and is 'as untameable as a fly.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
For the information of my readers, I must observe that a cowskin is a large whip, made like a riding whip, out of the hide of the hippopotamus, or sea-cow, and is proverbial for the severity of punishment it is capable of inflicting. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
Xanthippe, by whom he had three sons; but her bad temper has rendered her name proverbial for a conjugal scold. A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
Indeed, the bad name that proverbially hangs the dog has already been given to the one under consideration, for bibliomania is older in the technology of this kind of nosology than dipsomania, which is now understood to be an almost established ground for seclusion, and deprivation of the management of one's own affairs. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
Blake, like the proverbial alchemist, by his illustrations, changes the mundane world into a fairyland accessible to every child that picks up his book!
The main attraction is just plain old proverbial eye candy in the form of glossy-lipped, apple-cheeked, exfoliated pretty boy punims peeking out from perfectly pomaded locks.
As tuition skyrockets, financial aid has become as elusive as that needle in the proverbial haystack.
Some may carp at this; to these let us say with the French proverbialist, _Rien n’est indifférent dans la vie d’un grand homme; le genie se revéle dans ses moindres actions_. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
the police are proverbially inquisitive
your proverbial dizzy blonde
He is the proverbial square peg in a round hole.
The store had everything including the proverbial kitchen sink.
The Englishman's proverbial lack of bragging is a subtler form of brag after all. Chapter 15
Captain Forsyth, Settlement Officer of Nimar, had a very unfavourable opinion of the Bhilalas, whom he described as proverbial for dishonesty in agricultural engagements and worse drunkards than any of the indigenous tribes. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
This is often described as the proverbial Dark Night of the Soul. Before We Can Rise Up, We Must Go Down and Through
Darren Davies had the proverbial mare and finished last.
After being liberated, I looked across the creek bed I had just crossed after my outdoors nap, and seen my first sign, the proverbial whitetail waving sayonara, bye-bye, I'm outta here. Blast From The Past
Here we have first religious meditations and legends of Saints, then proverbial, or as they are called "gnomic" verses, next allegorical descriptions by means of animals, and finally riddles. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
A former useful handicapper on the Flat with Sir Mark Prescott, Inglis Drever has taken to hurdling like the proverbial duck to water and has won all his three races in the style of a high-class recruit.
In 1948, Professor Alfred C. Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, dropping a proverbial bomb of sexual information on a largely misinformed and prudish culture.
She rises like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of her lunacy to become the first woman psychoanalyst in Switzerland.
Lokman; they record only “dictes” and proverbial sayings. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The initial buzz and projected rapid adoption rate of the technology is being driven by suppliers' zeal to stay in the good graces of the proverbial 900-pound gorilla.
He is the proverbial square peg in a round hole.
the proverbial absentminded professor
There was a vein of proverbial wisdom in what he said.
Here he administered for the first time the Sacrament of Penance; here he preached from the pulpit of his panegyrist his first sermon; here he entered upon "that career of zeal and usefulness which made his name proverbial in every family of the parish." ... Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
The memory of Coeur de Lion, of the lion-hearted prince, was long dear and glorious to his English subjects; and, at the distance of sixty years, it was celebrated in proverbial sayings by the grandsons of the Turks and Saracens, against whom he had fought: his tremendous name was employed by the Syrian mothers to silence their infants; and if a horse suddenly started from the way, his rider was wont to exclaim, “Dost thou think King Richard is in that bush?” The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
You have really hit the nail on the proverbial redware SoCons, Paultards, NeoCons, RINOS… TOSS ‘EM ALL OUT… or Maybe Not - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState
If someone writes in an honest truthful voice, people are drawn to it like the proverbial bees to honey.
I've been trying to eat properly recently, as I am fighting the proverbial battle of the bulge, but over the last two days, I have been pigging out!
Being a diplomat's wife thrusts multiple roles on her and often she has to burn the proverbial midnight oil to catch up on unfinished work on the canvas.
So sharpen your proverbial pencils and get scribbling, because it's your reviews that keep me writing.
You don't have to be a Democrat, a liberal, or a socialist to acknowledge that the proverbial wheels are falling off the juggernaut.
Many of the contestants who have coughed up their proverbial blood, sweat and tears for the last few months see the decision in a much different, more impatient light.
Can the large firm in agriculture compete with the proverbial flexibility, in work and income, of the family farmer?
He's got broad shoulders, as in being responsible and not being just the passer of the proverbial buck.
The sea was smooth and calm as the proverbial millpond and a fine drizzle began drifting down. COVER STORY
The term frenemy, seamlessly blending the words fri (end) and enemy, refers to someone who pretends to be a friend but actually is an enemy --- a proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing in the world of friendships. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Court is not unmindful of the State's dilemma; it is caught between the proverbial rock and hard place," Maricopa County Superior Court Judge J. Arizona Is Ordered to Allow Pot Sales
the proverbially dour New England Puritan
this proverbially bitter plant, wormwood
At a rate of perhaps 5,000 barrels per day, the spill - more properly described as a gusher akin to the proverbial Texas oil strike because of the pressure bearing from beneath the Gulf floor - may turn out to rival the amount of oil lost in the 1989 Exxon Valdez shipping accident. GetLiberty.org
She tripped over a marble fragment and hit another in the Agora of Ephesus, the proverbially wealthy Ionic city on the Cayster River in Western Turkey.
His application to business was proverbial, though his attention to accounts is often held against him as unworthy of a monarch.
Kallis, who by then was seeing it like the proverbial football, calmly swatted that second beamer for six over midwicket, but the early part of his innings had been a different story.
Clark says this move away from hand-held camera work effectively forces audiences to face the proverbial music.
An interesting article, "Proverbs and prejudice: El Indio in Hispanic proverbial speech" by Shirley L. Arora De Proverbio, Vol. 1, no. Languagehat.com: EL INDIO.
You say what once seemed unsayable, you let the proverbial fly, the leader - seemingly benign - disassociates himself, meanwhile the seeds of doubt are sown, and the headkickers party on…
Throwing in the proverbial towel is, however, not an option according to the rules of this particular contest, which state that the game can only end with checkmate or stalemate.
Yesterday a sailplane landed as light as that proverbial feather in Grasmere . . . under the beetling eminence of Helm Crag . . . Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District
To avoid heavy losses, the banks had their captive securities firms package the loans and sell them as securities to the proverbial widows and orphans.
There's a freshly ammunitioned war going on the nascent and yet already proverbial Momosphere that has crystallized something that has been nagging at me for months. Blog: Tale of the skittering thong
My Rambouillet will be the proverbial Tom Bombadil once again... From The BSNYC Culture Desk: Art and Transience
An astute businessman and virtual workaholic, he has his finger in more proverbial puddings than Little Jack Horner.
Which turned the suggestion into amassing stuff that would be valuable once the proverbial fan got crudded up. Short Story: "A Hard Box to Think Outside Of" (13th in a series)
And observing that it was generally read, scarce any neighborhood in the province being without it, I considered it as a proper vehicle for conveying instruction among the common people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as a means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly as, to use here one of the proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
The store had everything including the proverbial kitchen sink.
Can the large firm in agriculture compete with the proverbial flexibility, in work and income, of the family farmer?
The store had everything including the proverbial kitchen sink.
Eventually, they got to the part of the story where they found Sandoz, and the shit hit the proverbial fan.
The khalif An-nasir, whose prosperity in mundane affairs became proverbial, had only fourteen days of undisturbed enjoyment during a reign of fifty years, seven months, and three days. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
She's tall, lissome and very pretty as well as being smart as the proverbial whip.
I decided not to ask her for a loan in view of her proverbial meanness.
Back in the days between leaving college and finding a real job, my friends and I drank like the proverbial fishes.
Santorini is about as stable as the proverbial blancmange.
As a result, they act in the manner of the proverbial sledge-hammer to crack a nut.
In fact, we had not gone far, when a really characteristic tropical shower baptized us properly, and continued during the whole of the rest of the day, the result being, as may be imagined, that we arrived at "Copacabana" like the proverbial "drookit mice. Argentina from a British Point of View
Although by trying to ‘organise’ the separate groups the PCT bureaucrats displayed their inability to organise the proverbial in a brewery.
They are the proverbial cheeky London chappies, as cocky as two geezers barely out of their teens are entitled to be when blessed with an obvious talent.
This apothegmatic or proverbial quality in Montaigne had a very important sequel of fruitful influence on subsequent French writers, as chapters to follow in this volume will abundantly show. Classic French Course in English
I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag. Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse
That's because Leakey knew that his find wasn't what he'd hoped; Zinjanthropus would not be the proverbial ‘missing link.’
If nothing else, it should be more open than the only league meeting between the two so far this term, when Chelsea bored the proverbials off everyone on their way to a 1-0 win at Old Trafford.
We deny woman her fair share of training, of encouragement, of remuneration, and then talk fine nonsense about her instincts and her intuitions, -- say sentimentally, with the Oriental proverbialist, "Every book of knowledge is implanted by nature in the heart of woman," and make the compliment a substitute for the alphabet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
I felt relief because the film had rather skillfully named the proverbial elephant (s) in the room, raising issues that many educators find extraordinarily uncomfortable to talk about. Lisa Petrides: 'Superman' Puts Spotlight on Education
The old adage that more is not necessarily better is certainly the proverbial case here.
Is your boss unassertive because she is job insecure and doesn't want to rock the proverbial boat? Times, Sunday Times
An abundance of alcohol leads the boys to let their proverbial hair down; they ask Verdu along on a summer road trip, thinking she'll never say yes.
Taken at face value, the question seems simple enough but scratch it and the hidden prejudices and stereotypes tumble out of the cupboard like the proverbial skeletons.
Yet, as the decade wore on and a succession of lacklustre releases followed to mixed reviews and declining, albeit still formidable, sales the proverbial chickens came home to roost.
Ultimately, I see societal energy as possessing a kind of oceanic quality, with its ebb and flow, its neap tides and high tides upon which true individuality is a proverbial storm-tossed bark. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
the proverbial poor artist living in a garret
A little after 2pm the tide turned and it ran like the proverbial clappers.
Let's just say that I've been rushed off my proverbials, settling into life in London.
The limousine sped off down the road in the proverbial cloud of dust. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
Bertram looks like he stepped out of the proverbial bandbox, with a tuxedo that fits his athletic frame perfectly, and a silk shirt that shows off his brown-black eyes and deep, dimpled smile.
He had more than O'Connell's dread to pass irretrievably outside the law, although he might not have scrupled to drive the proverbial carriage and six through law's usual dubieties of expression, particularly in certain sections of the Victorian Education Acts. As one of the earliest Irish colonists from the old country, he soon rose to the leading position amongst his fellow-colonist Irishmen. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
But when a leading lady is taking home the movie budget's proverbial bacon, where does a casting director go to find, say, Jennifer Lopez's match made in cinematic heaven? Guys like Alex O'Loughlin could grow into big stars
Eventually, they got to the part of the story where they found Sandoz, and the shit hit the proverbial fan.
The editor handed it over, and he read it and hit the proverbial roof at how explicit the sex scenes were (spankings, bondage, whippings, and hanky-panky in public on the hood of a car were all involved, as I recall). Ed Greenwood–Day 5
The store had everything including the proverbial kitchen sink.
We learned from the Urban League's Achievement Campaign that youngsters will respond if only the adults in the proverbial village bestir themselves to inspire and then recognize them. Hugh B. Price: Community Mobilization: A Missing Link in School Reform
Outside of the Ghetto the modern Shylock is envisioned as a man of mode, whose proverbial gabardine has been replaced by the latest Parisian cry.
Then I had the proverbial light bulb moment: I took the concho belt, cut it in half and put it around the hat. Amanda Christine Miller: What's My Logo?: Slash On Stealing His First Top Hat, Becoming Fashion Sensation
[FN#239] The older Arab writers, I repeat, do not ascribe fables or beast-apologues to Lokman; they record only "dictes" and proverbial sayings. Arabian nights. English
A title repeat seems out of the question now, so all of their proverbial eggs are in the Copa Libertadores basket and the pressure seems to mount on all ends for Ischia, even in areas where he least expected them. Boca Headed For A Crisis?
Condemned to celibacy because married servants were expensive and inconvenient, their proverbial cupidity arose as often as not from saving to buy themselves out of service and into family life.
It might as well be the proverbial tiddlywinks, or as so deliciously happened when one of our own swept up the world title at that most athletic of English indoor sports - darts.
Yesterday a 1960s Olympia 463 sailplane landed as light as that proverbial feather in Grasmere, albeit skimming a drystone wall at 50mph to slide along the grass after 100 yards and just before another wall loomed ominously ahead. Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District
He seems to have 9 lives, like the proverbial cat.
The proverbial ploughboy singing the psalms at his work as Tyndale put it. Confirmation of Election speech for Rt Revd John Sentamu, St Mary-le-Bow, London
My audience certainly isn't the proverbial man in the street.
It has been said that the frozen parts of our planet, also known as the cryosphere, may be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine' when it comes to climate change. WN.com - Articles related to Goddard Introduces NASA Center For Climate Simulation
Tiered trays come to the table loaded with the proverbial cucumber sandwiches, along with scones served with Devonshire clotted cream, dozens of dainties and many other treats.
The proverbial ‘elephant in the living room’ has become ‘the python behind the credenza.’
Standing nearly 6ft 4in and built like the proverbial brick outhouse, the Russian's brooding handsomeness makes him one of the few genuine new stars of the men's game.
Blogs of War omits the proverbial best thing about McDonalds: there are always some brats there worse behaved than your own.
Throwing in the proverbial towel is, however, not an option according to the rules of this particular contest, which state that the game can only end with checkmate or stalemate.
Unfortunately, this message is delivered with such a lack of finesse and tact that it feels like the proverbial sledgehammer is trying to pound the message into the audience.
He seems to have 9 lives, like the proverbial cat.
he kicked the proverbial bucket
One could hear the proverbial pin drop as the four actors related a touching and evocative story of human tragedy and its sequence of events unfolding with one surprise after another.
The nippy corner forward enjoyed the proverbial field day, his goal and five points from play being the icing on the cake.
Yes, the almighty American Buck has been waved in front of the proverbial noses of the planet and even I can smell the money.
So finally, one blustery weekend last winter, he got down on literal and proverbial bended knee and offered up a very impressive diamond.
Outside of the Ghetto the modern Shylock is envisioned as a man of mode, whose proverbial gabardine has been replaced by the latest Parisian cry.
(It turns out Stephen had been trying for years to be published in Zyzzyva and Junker's harsh comment was the proverbial straw on the camel's back.) Jane Ganahl: Reading as a Spectator Sport
She looked as though there was something she wanted to say, but either she couldn't find the words or the proverbial cat had her tongue because she didn't say anything.

How To Use Proverbial In A Sentence

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