1. His modesty is proverbial.

2. His stupidity is proverbial.

3. His punctuality has become proverbial.

4. He drinks like the proverbial fish.

5. Byword: A proverbial expression; a proverb

6. Let's not count our proverbial chickens.

7. Byword definition is - a proverbial saying : proverb

8. Ah, yes: The proverbial three-hour tour.

9. + 3 He then spoke this proverbial saying:+

10. 23 And he continued his proverbial saying:

11. His generosity is proverbial in the neighbourhood.

12. He's got to pull the proverbial finger out.

13. He had the proverbial solidity of the English.

14. 27 That is what gave rise to the taunting proverbial saying:

15. The Celtics, meanwhile, felt like the proverbial jilted lover.

16. (Deuteronomy 9:1, 2) Yes, these giant warriors were proverbial!

17. But I swept such considerations under the proverbial carpet.

18. Santorini is about as stable as the proverbial blancmange.

19. The result was a level of corruption which became proverbial.

20. The proverbial walk in the woods is not for me.

21. My audience certainly isn't the proverbial man in the street.

22. He seems to have 9 lives, like the proverbial cat.

23. You are the proverbial Star and Key of the Indian Ocean.

24. Naturally, there is the proverbial robin - well, robins to be precise.

25. The eyesight and reflexes of the lynx have long been proverbial.

26. There was a vein of proverbial wisdom in what he said.

27. They speak an extraordinarily complex language rich in vocabulary, idiom, and proverbial expression.

28. Discourse.net: VOTE! (Preferably for Obama) The proverbial "Canniness" of the Scottish nation was all upon the one side; the equally proverbial _perfervidum ingenium_ was all upon the other.Chronicles of Strathearn

29. Boeotia was traditionally proverbial among Athenians for the dullness and stupidity of its inhabitants

30. Today, South Park offers a self-fulfilling buzz, a spot with that proverbial Left Bank feel about it.

31. Don't you think that the Pope come down on them like the proverbial ton of bricks?

32. Perhaps the peacock’s proverbial reputation for pride stems from this readiness to display all his finery.

33. Some of my guests were born sucking on the proverbial silver spoon, others knew hard times.

34. His loyalty to his friend was so exemplary as to become proverbial, hence the term fidus Achates (‘faithful Achates’).

35. Byword (plural Bywords) A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase

36. * It seemed as if the proverbial sword of Damocles would be hanging over me for the rest of my life.

37. (Proverbial) C’est la coutume de Lorris, les battus paient l’Amende ou, simplement et plus ordinairement… Amende v

38. Achates was a companion of Aeneas, whose loyalty to his friend was so exemplary as to become proverbial

39. Lucifer passed the Mark to Cain, who passed the Mark to you, the proverbial finger in the dike.

40. An astute businessman and virtual workaholic, he has his finger in more proverbial puddings than Little Jack Horner.

41. As a result, they act in the manner of the proverbial sledge-hammer to crack a nut.

42. 30 Some of my guests were born sucking on the proverbial silver spoon, others knew hard times.

43. 16 Not to brag or anything, but when the proverbial smoke cleared, I had left the competition in the typewritten dust.

44. • An Astute businessman and virtual workaholic, he has his finger in more proverbial puddings than Little Jack Horner

45. His loyalty to his friend was so exemplary as to become proverbial, hence the term fidus Achates (‘faithful Achates’).

46. Can the large firm in agriculture compete with the proverbial flexibility, in work and income, of the family farmer?

47. 10 From an easygoing girl she had metamorphosed into some one who wanted the proverbial all-or-nothing relationship.

48. Small towns and highways sit in the distance like the proverbial well-behaved child -- seen, vaguely, but not heard.

49. 23 Isaiah continues the proverbial saying: “O how you have fallen from heaven, you shining one, son of the dawn!

50. Yes, there will always be people who pulled themselves up by their own proverbial bootstraps, but Bootstrappers still need timing and luck

51. 25 I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny, as if I had never been away.

52. 7:24, 26)." "The expression "valley of Achor" probably became proverbial for" "that which caused trouble, and when Isaiah (Isa

53. A HUGE collection of proverbs, proverbial sayings, clichés, maxims, Adages, aphorisms, platitudes, mottos, old saws, inanities, common sayings, or whatever you want to call them

54. Before you throw this letter into the proverbial round file, let's be clear: this is the first time I have ever asked for a bailout from the Federal Reserve.

55. Coworking spaces have been, and will continue to be significantly hurt by lockdowns and social distancing requirements, but several opportunities for the industry lie at the end of the proverbial

56. Azrael is the proverbial Angel of Death, the Celestial charged by God to handle the affairs of things related to the end of life and the passing of souls

57. Legend says that when Achilles was an infant, his mother dipped him in the waters of the River Styx, thus making him invulnerable except for where his mother held onto him —the proverbial Achilles’ heel.

58. Synonyms & Antonyms of Bootstrapper an ambitious person who eagerly goes after what is desired he was the proverbial Bootstrapper, having worked his way up from the mail room to the corner office

59. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub - Teenage Fanclub on AllMusic - 2003 - Noel Gallagher hit the proverbial nail on the…

60. A person, place, or thing regarded as a perfect or proverbial example of somethingtheir name is a Byword for good service an object of scorn or derision a common saying; proverb Word Origin for …

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62. ‘I'll remember Horace as a true original, unhybridized, a Bushelful of contradictions: stubborn but sentimental, steely and twinkly, old-school formal but startlingly earthy.’ ‘Michelle has been known to eat fresh peas by the proverbial Bushelful.’ ‘I grew up eating Chesapeake Bay crabs by the Bushelful.’

63. But now, now I must bid you all adieu and admonish you to watch your proverbial butts, for I shall be back with the sledgehammer of justice, prepared to lay Joseph waste to these four walls, if you so much as touch a hair on my client's...

64. 27 The proverbial saying ends with final orders to the conquering Medes and Persians: “Make ready, you men, a slaughtering block for his own sons because of the error of their forefathers, that they may not rise up and actually take possession of the earth and fill the face of the productive land with cities.”

65. ‘After flowering they can be lifted and replaced with summer bedding, but to keep the Bandbox appearance stick to flowers of one colour.’ ‘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.’

66. Of course, before there could be Archosaurs (much less full-blown dinosaurs), nature had to evolve the first true reptile.At the start of the Carboniferous period--the swampy, wet, vegetation-choked era during which the first peat bogs formed—the most common land creatures were prehistoric amphibians, themselves descended (by way of the earliest tetrapods) from the proverbial prehistoric

67. Trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel ( Joshua 7:24 Joshua 7:26).The expression "valley of Achor" probably became proverbial for that which caused trouble, and when Isaiah ( Isaiah 65:10) refers to it he uses it in this sense: "The valley of Achor, a place for herds to lie down in;" i.e., that which had been a source

68. Trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel ( Joshua 7:24 Joshua 7:26).The expression "valley of Achor" probably became proverbial for that which caused trouble, and when Isaiah ( Isaiah 65:10) refers to it he uses it in this sense: "The valley of Achor, a place for herds to lie down in;" i.e., that which had been a source