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Meanings of proverbial phrase in английском

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фраза-поговорка

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

        фраза-поговорка
        Usage of proverbial phrase in английском
        1
        The Greeks, who were very fond of this race, coined a proverbial phrase from it.
        The Book of Missionary Heroes
        2
        Indeed, "Ducie's luck" was a proverbial phrase at the whist-tables of his club.
        The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891
        3
        Perhaps the proverbial phrase just quoted may have had its origin in the natural phenomenon here described.
        Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
        4
        Hers was an inextinguishable wit, always alert, epigrammatic, enriching the language with proverbial phrases.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        5
        No wonder 'fish out of water' and 'like a drowning man' have both become proverbial phrases.
        The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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