Conventional saying which permits alteration, transmitted by oral tradition, where figurative meaning is the extension of its literal meaning.
1 The Greeks, who were very fond of this race, coined a proverbial phrase from it.
2 Indeed, "Ducie's luck" was a proverbial phrase at the whist-tables of his club.
3 Perhaps the proverbial phrase just quoted may have had its origin in the natural phenomenon here described.
4 Hers was an inextinguishable wit, always alert, epigrammatic, enriching the language with proverbial phrases .
5 No wonder 'fish out of water' and 'like a drowning man' have both become proverbial phrases .
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