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单词 proverbial
释义
proverbial
adjective
uk
/prəˈvɜː.bi.əl/us
/prəˈvɝː.bi.əl/
as used in aproverbor other phrase:
谚语的，俗话所说的，常言中的
Theplayerspointedthe proverbialfingerat themselves as theonesneedingtoimprove.这些球员简直就是在对自己竖中指，其实他们才是需要提高的人。
wellknown:
众所周知的
his proverbial goodhumour他那人人皆知的好脾气
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(Definition ofproverbialfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

proverbial| American Dictionary

proverbial
adjective[not gradable]
us
/prəˈvɜr·bi·əl/
(of astatement)commonlyknown,esp. because it is from aproverbor sayingknownby manypeople, or because itexpressesatruthknownby aparticulargroupofpeople:
Yelling at me was the proverbialstrawthatbrokethe camel’s back.
(Definition ofproverbialfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofproverbial

proverbial
What can one do if one's bank has a conflict of interest and it has one by the financial proverbials?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He described theproverbial' good woman ' as one who could run the house while her husband was away.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Aproverbialexpression shows the simple logic behind the problem and concludes the poem: 'he who wants goods twice cheats the merchant'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Team members valued those moments of transcendence, often experiencing it as an anticipated moment of new insights and meaning theproverbial"a-ha" moments!.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Unnaturally realistic figures of wax and grotesque manifestations ofproverbiallanguage, they are mimetic as well as linguistic exaggerations.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The horrifying ride and tragic fall (like theproverbialtree in the woods) had no witnesses.
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Observers make predictions all the time about economic recessions, the collapse of civil society, and theproverbial'end of the world'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Like theproverbialelephant examined by blind men, it allows quite disparate conclusions.
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With the exception of reliance on the support of family networks or theproverbialmoney stuffed in a mattress, there were no alternative networks for old age pensioners.
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What we witness in this scene is more than just an exchange ofproverbialwisdom, although that constitutes the major element of the social language of the elders.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Their clean outlines underscore theproverbialquality of the text statements.
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The purpose of the accompanying social science research effort was to complement the biophysical effort to help increase theproverbial'pile of rice' through improved production technologies.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There are bushels of inferior compositions on the market labelled 'blues', but the genuine article by born writers of 'blues' is as scarce as theproverbial'hen's teeth'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Proverbialunderstanding in a pictorial context.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The last three years' demands for statistics and returns show that theproverbialstraw has broken the camel's back.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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