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proverbial 音标拼音: [prəv'ɚbiəl] a. 谚语的,谚语式的,闻名的 谚语的,谚语式的,闻名的 proverbial adj 1: of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb; " he kicked the proverbial bucket"; " the proverbial grasshopper" 2: widely known and spoken of; " her proverbial lateness"; " the proverbial absentminded professor"; " your proverbial dizzy blonde" Proverbial \ Pro* ver" bi* al\, a. [ L. proverbialis: cf. F. proverbial.] 1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. [ 1913 Webster] In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. -- Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb. " A proverbial obscurity." -- Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster] 45 Moby Thesaurus words for " proverbial": accepted, acknowledged, aphoristic, apophthegmatic, apothegmatic, archetypal, axiomatic, common, commonly known, commonplace, crisp, current, epigrammatic, exemplary, familiar, formulaic, formulistic, gnomic, hackneyed, homiletic, household, moralistic, notorious, pithy, platitudinous, pointed, public, pungent, sententious, succinct, talked- about, talked- of, terse, time- honored, traditional, trite, truistic, typical, universally admitted, universally recognized, well- kenned, well- known, well- recognized, well- understood, widely known
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