(1) For those who may have been living under the proverbial rock, Andy Warhol is perhaps the most well-known American artist of the twentieth century.(2) I was notorious for talking myself straight into a proverbial brick wall, and that was something I certainly didn't want to do in this situation.(3) She looked as though there was something she wanted to say, but either she couldn't find the words or the proverbial cat had her tongue because she didn't say anything.(4) Taken at face value, the question seems simple enough but scratch it and the hidden prejudices and stereotypes tumble out of the cupboard like the proverbial skeletons.(5) It's just so much easier to curse like the proverbial inner city sailor than to speak in a traditionally sophisticated and cultured manner.(6) The title of the movie refers to the proverbial elephant in the living room - the big problem that is ignored for so long that people are no longer able to recognize it.(7) On campus, they stick out like the proverbial sore thumb because they are the ones with the bandaged fingers.(8) In other words, the government is between the proverbial rock and the hard place.(9) Conversely, an inconsistency in your essay will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.(10) You don't have to be a Democrat, a liberal, or a socialist to acknowledge that the proverbial wheels are falling off the juggernaut.(11) Traditional, local institutions were thought to be the solution to what is proverbially known as u2018the tragedy of the commons.u2019(12) We have been pleading for years for a level playing field over which our Government has miserably failed us; but through a proverbially perverse back door the same end has been achieved.(13) There was no u2018general collapse of proverbiality u2019 and no u2018nearly complete blackoutu2019 of proverbs, and, as will be shown in this present study, not even Lord Chesterfield himself could escape the spell of proverbs.(14) This study holds that around the time of marriage, happiness increases briefly during what is proverbially called the honeymoon period, but that after one year it returns to the level that prevailed more than one year before marriage.(15) This is cited as farm wisdom, and there is no reason to doubt its proverbiality , although a few more references would be welcome.(16) It was the proverbially dark and stormy night - the coldest February weather in recorded history, with sheets of rain and a biting wind.
