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Proverbial
"Proverbial" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Finding a good language course on the Internet is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Trump thinks he's the proverbial 800-pound gorilla.
Yanni's loud music was just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
Although the proverbial fountain of youth does not exist, research in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that a youthful old age is possible if one remains fit and active.
The president is acting like the proverbial bull in the china shop, breaking everything around him.
The busyness of a beaver is proverbial.
The beaver in this instance upheld the reputation of the proverbial one: her output was prodigious.
Doris: You're making me feel like the proverbial stepmother.
the proverbial smoking gun
the proverbial spilled milk
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The visit was a warning shot across our proverbial bow
“We don’t like it, it’s the proverbial ‘crap sandwich’ that they talk about but what’s the best move from here and we think it’s the way to go,” said Rep. Mark Walker, chairman of the large group of fiscal conservatives known as the Republican Study Committee. […] “I think there is a growing consensus, whether it’s February or sometime, that we don’t want to be on this proverbial hamster wheel,” he said.
I grew up in a prefab house on Main Street in 1950s suburbia, the second and last child of a proverbial nuclear family.
Mr. Obama has presented himself as a fresh face, unsteeped in Washington and the proverbial “politics as usual.”
I think we should be prepared in case the proverbial hits the fan.
Are you taking the proverbial?
You'll find they've got you by the proverbials.
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