Pistorius became his country's proverbial role model.
In 1947, for example, the proverbial heavy snow blanketed the entire Northeast, with New York getting 25.8 inches in 16 hours in a blizzard that stranded buses, shut down subways, killed about 80 people and left the city, as this newspaper reported three days later, "like a giant stunned by a sudden blow".
"It's a stark example of the proverbial 1% and the other 99%," says Jay Coghlan, sitting in a large reclining chair in the living room of his home in Santa Fe.
It's the kind of thing that people often experience in nature, for example, on the proverbial mountaintop.
The proverbial struggle with weight, for example, is typically aggravated by emotional eating, yet the most common "remedy" for it is dieting -- which in fact is often counterproductive.
The scapegoating of Common is yet another example of the proverbial boogeyman who is to blame for all of the ills of society, when in fact the very people attacking him have no resolutions to our very grave challenges.
The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang notes an absence of capitalization or quotation marks in this citation and thinks it "probable that the 1909 quotation represents a metaphorical or perhaps proverbial usage, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term".
An example would be the proverbial (almost) free laptops.
As an educator and later an entrepreneur, I've realized that this is one of the most profound examples of the importance of the proverbial traveler's journey.
These examples are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg: Outlander is a virtual guidebook to what turns women on.
