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Short, simple sentences with “proverbial”, suitable for children and primary/elementary school, with common expressions and related words. You'll also find examples for middle and high school.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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