Conventional saying which permits alteration, transmitted by oral tradition, where figurative meaning is the extension of its literal meaning.
1 Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore.
2 The original is a proverbial expression like "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."
3 One day the king, hearing this proverbial expression used by certain lords, said jokingly-
4 Not so much as would cover a sixpenny piece, to quote a proverbial expression !
5 He wrote, over a century ago now: This proverbial expression is oftener used than understood.
6 We pay homage to it in our proverbial expression , "a little bird told me".
7 Hence we find also, that "as false as an epitaph," has become a proverbial expression .
8 He then asked him to explain the meaning of the proverbial expression 'Shuraih is more cunning than the fox'.
9 That is a proverbial expression , bearing witness, probably, to the deep traces left by the Exodus, for reversing calamity.
10 The Cherokee Indians have a pointed proverbial expression to the same effect-simtaweh ne wara, the great hawk is at home.
11 This is the famous Penelope's web, which is used as a proverbial expression for anything which is perpetually doing but never done.
12 The proverbial expression "as rich as a jew," is not altogether verified in Birmingham, but perhaps, time is transferingitto theQuakers.
13 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.
14 Bunyan was peculiarly happy in his use of popular and proverbial expressions . - Ed.
15 Proverbial expressions and trite sayings are the flowers of the rhetoric of a vulgar man.
16 Several other expressions of Jesus were, it appears from the Talmud, proverbial expressions in use among the Jews.
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