Sentence examples for proverbial boy from inspiring English sources

Take the proverbial boy in the sandbox.

But before dismissing Boras's hyperbole as the proverbial boy crying wolf, it is worth recalling the oft-forgotten second moral of that story: sometimes there really is a wolf.

But Markey's call for the new permit ban retention is tantamount the proverbial boy with his finger in the dike trying to hold back the sea.

Earl, the proverbial boy next door, remembered the pain etched in Marcie's face when they'd talk after school over the white picket fence between her back yard and the alley.

They may go for a guy with a few misdemeanors and a bad haircut, but that's about the extent of their interest in the proverbial Bad Boy.

"In fact, in the wake of this football playing fag phenomenon, Knute is just a proverbial water boy".

"Irrational Exuberance" should be compulsory reading for anybody interested in Wall Street or financially exposed to it; at the moment that would be roughly everybody in the United States, from Alan Greenspan down to the proverbial shoe-shine boy.

This was like the proverbial Little Dutch Boy trying to plug holes in the dike.

Barca were swept away in those two contests, with Bayern's superior physicality easily seeing off their opponents in a mismatch that looked like the proverbial men against boys.

The Pro 3 was apparently the point when the proverbial Pinocchio became a real boy, and Microsoft began to feel fully confident that the Pro was a legit laptop replacement.

So Sharon lurches again from pillar to proverbial post with Denny in tow, a boy tripping over his own fringe and filing the whole thing away for future therapists, of which there will be many.