Sentence examples for proverbial in from inspiring English sources

We've paid the mortgage off just 20 weeks after not having a pot to do the proverbial in.

Herrera posits shame and a refusal of victimhood; "starving Armenians" were proverbial in America in the nineteen-twenties.

Here lies the basis for the continual shifts in his policy of alliances: "Brandenburg's intermittent fever," which became proverbial in the 17th century.

Her constant speculating about "What will Mrs Grundy say?" soon became proverbial in 18th-century English, while Grundyism has since become synonymous with conventionalism or correctness and Mrs Grundy herself remains the personification of pompous propriety or mannerliness.

Aesthetic returns were to diminish swiftly: within a decade of ICI House's slim, glassy elegance, the Gas & Fuel Corporation had inflicted on Melbourne not one but two hunched brown brick towers with tiny aluminium windows, proverbial in their monotony – the so-called 'ugly sisters'.

Another example would be Calvin Coolidge's "The chief business of the American people is business" from 1925, which has long become proverbial in the slightly altered form of "The business of America is business".

The proverbial tongue-in-cheek in Silicon Valley is that people want to build things that "change the world".

Through sequential enrichment of large DNA-encoded phage libraries, the proverbial "needle-in-the-haystack" interacting with a given target can be identified.

Let's take a quick dip in that proverbial bath, in the spirit of Archimedes.

Lucerne'’s Festival in Summer, the proverbial jewel in the crown, began August 16 and is currently underway.

In short, this is the proverbial fork in the road of history.