It is, rather, a polyglot's helper: a word appears in English and its equivalents are usually offered in French and Latin and Greek, often with a proverbial expression, or a citation from a classical author.
As to what Chicago women should do/should worry about/should scream and holler about, now that Rahm is to be our mayor, well, as the proverbial expression goes: there's good news and there's bad news.
The extraordinary popularity of Ḥāfeẓ's poetry in all Persian-speaking lands stems from his simple and often colloquial though musical language, free from artificial virtuosity, and his unaffected use of homely images and proverbial expressions.
The names of some of these "martyrs of love," together with the names of their beloveds, were preserved and eventually became proverbial expressions of the tremendous force of true love.
A proverbial good look in the mirror was quite revealing.
Develop the proverbial poker face.
In its songs the chorus frequently had recourse to expressions of a proverbial kind, using the distilled wisdom of the community to account for the strange and often disturbing events represented in the plays.
Her fans might say that Miley's artistic expression and the video bridges the proverbial gap between white artists and modern black music culture, which – whether you like it or not – has become ubiquitously mainstream.
Immunoblotting data suggested that with or without 100 μmol/L ATP treatment, knockdown of CLIC4 via specific siRNA notably increased the expression of Bax and active caspase 3, which are the proverbial pro-apoptotic proteins, but decreased the expression of Bcl-2, which demonstrates as an anti-apoptotic effect, compared with scrambled siRNA (Fig. 3).
You could have knocked me over with the proverbial feather, except that Wodehouse himself would have disdained the cliche, instead describing my expression as, perhaps, that of one who "had swallowed an east wind" (Carry On, Jeeves, 1925).
Rubio is simply an expression of that large problem and attacking him is nothing more than the proverbial assault on the messenger.
