Sentence examples for proverbial phrase from inspiring English sources

Lisa Lehr has been mugged by reality, in the proverbial phrase.

The name, coined by U.S. scientists, is derived from the proverbial phrase "side of a barn," something easy to hit.

It was thus used by John Milton (1608 74) in Paradise Lost, and the idea underlies the proverbial phrase "as proud as Lucifer".

This familiar proverbial phrase has always stuck with me, because it says so much in its perfect simplicity.

It's a simple word...one connected to our childhood stories about a monkey named George, or to that proverbial phrase about the doomed cat.

So be bold in critiquing the institutions of power in our midst, religion included, but don't throw our entire collective history under the proverbial bus because the phrase trends well on Twitter.

When it came to Shakespeare's plays, Johnson emphasised the role of the reader in understanding language: "If Shakespeare has difficulties above other writers, it is to be imputed to the nature of his work, which required the use of common colloquial language, and consequently admitted many phrases allusive, elliptical, and proverbial, such as we speak and hear every hour without observing them".

(The phrase "defacing the currency" later became proverbial in describing Diogenes' rejection of conventional values).

All in all, Hazlitt finds this to be one of the most quotable and quoted of Shakespear's plays: "There is hardly any of Shakespear's plays that contains a greater number of passages that have been quoted in books of extracts, or a greater number of phrases that have become in a manner proverbial".

Italian journalists, at times, put quotation marks around phrases they wouldn't have been able to hear — except as the proverbial fly on the wall).

The proverbial blank slate".