0 as used in a proverb or other phrase:
1 (of a statement) commonly known, esp. because it is from a proverb or saying known by many people, or because it expresses a truth known by a particular group of people:
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.
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