Sentence examples for proverbial men from inspiring English sources

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.

Ask the proverbial men and women on the street where they stand on the Volcker Rule, and watch their eyes glaze over.

Or, if those proverbial "men" can't do it, I know a lot of women who are ready to take on the challenge!

Everyone from Mayor Ernest D. Davis to the proverbial man on the street has pitched in.

How does it feel to be the proverbial man who has everything?

All he's trying to do, says Bill, a proverbial man in a bar, struggling to find the words, is "to begin the conversation, the honest conversation".

The Greg Packer who has made virtually a career out of lurking where reporters are likely to show, there to be quoted and cited as the proverbial man on the street?

It was the battle, the action, the roar of the crowd in which he revelled whereas Davis, for example, had the temperament to accumulate results whether before an audience of millions or the proverbial man and a dog.

But his family likes to joke that he is the proverbial man who falls into a sewer and comes out with a ham sandwich: always turning his troubles to his advantage.

Given that he is already the proverbial man who has everything - a £28m pound pad in Belgravia, a vast villa in St Tropez, 440 acres of Sussex, three yachts, including the 115-metre Pelorus, a private Boeing 737 and a real-life Championship Manager game (previously known as Chelsea FC) - it's hard to imagine what else he can spend it on.

In both word and deed, he was an exemplar to embattled and desperate segments of the Libyan population: The ex-regime officials, key eastern tribes, federalists and younger liberals, who began idolizing the military uniform, the proverbial "man on horseback," as the salvation for the country's worsening violence and, less nobly, a way to exclude their ideological opponents from power.