Almost every daily paper heralds the fact of some large bequest to colleges, churches and charities by rich women, but it is proverbial that they never remember the woman suffrage movement that underlies in importance all others".
It is proverbial of bubbles that their imminent end is marked by contagious confidence that they are immortal: this upward spiral being metaphysically different from its precedents in tulips, the South Seas, and bundled mortgages, not to speak of the ineffable Signor Ponzi.
It is proverbial that lunatics, criminals and peers are banned from serving as MPs; but today in the Commons, the Conservative Gavin Barwell won cross party support for his efforts to cut through the tangle of contradictory and out of date legislation around the question of MPs' mental health.
For its supporters, it's the proverbial "missing link" in Melbourne's freeway system.
The title's muscular elephant is not a pun; it's purely proverbial: We don't talk about anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) abuse in gay men, but we know it's there.
"Apply that principle to anyone's business and it would get you in so deep — it's the proverbial race to the bottom".
It's the proverbial warning for England.
"It's the proverbial rising tide lifting all boats," he said.
It's the proverbial big man who can dance, sprinting to 60 miles an hour in 5.7 seconds.
"It's the proverbial win-win," said a New York-based philanthropy adviser who requested anonymity because she works with a number of the city's charitable organizations and did not want to risk alienating them.
