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proverbial Adjective 1. well-known because commonly or traditionally referred to 2. of a proverb proverbially adv
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proverbial adjective conventional, accepted, traditional, famous, acknowledged, typical, well-known, legendary, notorious, customary, famed, archetypal, time-honoured, self-evident, unquestioned, axiomatic Translations |
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If it be true, as has often been remarked, that sayings which become proverbial are generally founded in reason, it is not less true, that when once established, they are often applied to cases to which the reason of them does not extend. Hence the proverbial toleration of artists for their own evil creations. The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself. |
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