Sentence examples for getting proverbial from inspiring English sources

"I just think we're getting proverbial mojo back," Rays Manager Joe Maddon said.

A decade ago, to be independent was to make the best of getting the proverbial short end of the stick.

Today it's our pals Cheeseburger getting the proverbial mother started.

Why did it take so long for Oxnard to get its proverbial day in the sun?

And his oeuvre got the proverbial ball rolling for the conceptual art movements that followed.

When it comes to being treated unfairly, Matilda Wormwood has been there, done that and got the proverbial t-shirt.

She became a diplomat's wife: "It was all coffee mornings and amateur dramatics, until I got the proverbial tap on the shoulder".

"We got the proverbial half a loaf," said Cornelius D. Murray, one of the lawyers who brought the case challenging the 2001 gambling law.

As spring arrives in fits and starts, and our wardrobes get the proverbial cleaning, it seems time to take it down a notch.

It has left them with no easy answer to the hardest issue they will face: for all of Mr. Obama's promises to get the proverbial car (the economy) out of a ditch, joblessness has barely budged.

Phyllis, Ben, Sally and Buddy not only watch, struggle and sing with their youthful selves; each of them gets that proverbial "big number," one perfectly shaped to the lies they live by and the truths they live with.