Sentences with 'proverbial'
Example sentences and phrases with the word proverbial and other words derived from it.
• « A peculiar phenomenon derived from the importance of capitals was that political revolutions often began as single-city revolutions: if a mob could take to the streets of Paris, for example, it could well send the king running for the proverbial hills and declare a new government (which happened in 1830 and 1848). »
• « According to Freud, the thoughts and feelings that we experience and can control are only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Most thoughts and feelings are buried in the unconscious. »
• « In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed. Like the proverbial sorcerer's apprentice who unleashed an enchantment he could not control, the (last, as it turned out) Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev had initiated a series of reforms in 1986 that eventually led to the dismantling of the Soviet state. »
• « The sense of the idiom does not include a sentence (e.g. to come to blows, for example), but it is sometimes equivalent to the proverbial phrase, which does express a sentence (one should not rest on one's laurels). »