Eksempler på proverbial

• What can one do if one's bank has a conflict of interest and it has one by the financial proverbials?

• He described the proverbial ' good woman ' as one who could run the house while her husband was away.

• A proverbial expression shows the simple logic behind the problem and concludes the poem: 'he who wants goods twice cheats the merchant'.

• Team members valued those moments of transcendence, often experiencing it as an anticipated moment of new insights and meaning the proverbial "a-ha" moments!.

• Unnaturally realistic figures of wax and grotesque manifestations of proverbial language, they are mimetic as well as linguistic exaggerations.

• The horrifying ride and tragic fall (like the proverbial tree in the woods) had no witnesses.

• Observers make predictions all the time about economic recessions, the collapse of civil society, and the proverbial 'end of the world'.

• Like the proverbial elephant examined by blind men, it allows quite disparate conclusions.

• With the exception of reliance on the support of family networks or the proverbial money stuffed in a mattress, there were no alternative networks for old age pensioners.

• What we witness in this scene is more than just an exchange of proverbial wisdom, although that constitutes the major element of the social language of the elders.

• Their clean outlines underscore the proverbial quality of the text statements.

• The purpose of the accompanying social science research effort was to complement the biophysical effort to help increase the proverbial 'pile of rice' through improved production technologies.

• The dominant model was rather the second one,54 and its prototypical, proverbial form seems to have been the marriage of prominent scholars with rich widows.

• There are bushels of inferior compositions on the market labelled 'blues', but the genuine article by born writers of 'blues' is as scarce as the proverbial 'hen's teeth'.

• Proverbial understanding in a pictorial context.