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Significados de proverbial expression en inglés

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Conventional saying which permits alteration, transmitted by oral tradition, where figurative meaning is the extension of its literal meaning.

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        Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore.
        Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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        The original is a proverbial expression like "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."
        Tales of Old Japan
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        One day the king, hearing this proverbial expression used by certain lords, said jokingly-
        Droll Stories — Volume 3
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        Not so much as would cover a sixpenny piece, to quote a proverbial expression!
        The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
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        He wrote, over a century ago now: This proverbial expression is oftener used than understood.
        The Irish Times
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        We pay homage to it in our proverbial expression, "a little bird told me".
        Popular Tales from the Norse
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        Hence we find also, that "as false as an epitaph," has become a proverbial expression.
        A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 / Taken from a View of the ...
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        He then asked him to explain the meaning of the proverbial expression 'Shuraih is more cunning than the fox'.
        The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
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        That is a proverbial expression, bearing witness, probably, to the deep traces left by the Exodus, for reversing calamity.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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        The Cherokee Indians have a pointed proverbial expression to the same effect-simtaweh ne wara, the great hawk is at home.
        Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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        This is the famous Penelope's web, which is used as a proverbial expression for anything which is perpetually doing but never done.
        Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
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        The proverbial expression "as rich as a jew," is not altogether verified in Birmingham, but perhaps, time is transferingitto theQuakers.
        An History of Birmingham (1783)
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        He whose eye had measured her for his victim verified, if ever man did, the proverbial expression of the iron hand under the velvet glove.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 / A Magazi...
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        Bunyan was peculiarly happy in his use of popular and proverbial expressions.-Ed.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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        Proverbial expressions and trite sayings are the flowers of the rhetoric of a vulgar man.
        Letters to His Son, 1749 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ...
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        Several other expressions of Jesus were, it appears from the Talmud, proverbial expressions in use among the Jews.
        The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testam...
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