"proverbial stone" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to a well-known, widely used saying or proverb. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as literature, essays, and everyday conversations. Example: "The new student felt like he was being scrutinized from all angles, as if he was under the proverbial stone in the school's strict environment."
"We have gotten blood from the proverbial stone".
Biochar stoves could potentially knock out both threats with one proverbial stone.
But trying to get him to talk about his work with children, despite the fact he's playing a scientist who finds a cure for a hitherto incurable childhood disease, is like getting blood out of the proverbial stone.
Some of us were born in Europe, others within the proverbial stone's throw of where we congregate.
Powell, the man who had complained of living 'within the proverbial stone's throw of streets which went black', had later sold his home to a West Indian couple.
The partial data about Russia's Brexit dis-ops, which Facebook and Twitter have trickled out so far, like blood from the proverbial stone, is unhelpful exactly because it cannot clear the matter up either way.
If we embrace this truth, we are much less likely to want to cast the proverbial first stone (and we are more likely to find a long-term solution rather than someone to condemn).
It would take the proverbial heart of stone not to laugh at David Wilshire, the so-called moralist Tory MP who introduced section 28, being forced to stand down after it was revealed that he has funnelled £105,500 of taxpayer-funded expenses into a research company he owns.
The show reveals taunting, humiliation and exclusion as variations of bullying that may be as painful as the proverbial sticks and stones.
Putin may well be attempting to kill two proverbial birds with one stone, threatening the West with the possibility of a new regional conflict, while also trying to convince Armenians that they need Russian protection.
On Mr. Stone's General Motors Building, 767 Fifth Avenue: "Behind the marble cladding and bay windows, architecture, like the proverbial thin man in the fat man's body, is signaling wildly to get out".
