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He described the proverbial ' good woman ' as one who could run the house while her husband was away.
A proverbial expression shows the simple logic behind the problem and concludes the poem: 'he who wants goods twice cheats the merchant'.
Team members valued those moments of transcendence, often experiencing it as an anticipated moment of new insights and meaning the proverbial "a-ha" moments!.
Unnaturally realistic figures of wax and grotesque manifestations of proverbial language, they are mimetic as well as linguistic exaggerations.
The horrifying ride and tragic fall (like the proverbial tree in the woods) had no witnesses.
Observers make predictions all the time about economic recessions, the collapse of civil society, and the proverbial 'end of the world'.
With the exception of reliance on the support of family networks or the proverbial money stuffed in a mattress, there were no alternative networks for old age pensioners.
What we witness in this scene is more than just an exchange of proverbial wisdom, although that constitutes the major element of the social language of the elders.
Their clean outlines underscore the proverbial quality of the text statements.
The purpose of the accompanying social science research effort was to complement the biophysical effort to help increase the proverbial 'pile of rice' through improved production technologies.
There are bushels of inferior compositions on the market labelled 'blues', but the genuine article by born writers of 'blues' is as scarce as the proverbial 'hen's teeth'.
Proverbial understanding in a pictorial context.
The last three years' demands for statistics and returns show that the proverbial straw has broken the camel's back.
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