proverbial
Example Sentences
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It’s bad enough forcing teams to fly eight or nine hours to Europe but this Australian game takes the proverbial cake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
In many Kalshi trades, customers are going up against the proverbial house.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
And I’ll make my financial case for how I justified writing a lump-sum check to a travel agency so large that I could picture my bank account clutching its proverbial pearls.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
This Animal Farm does indeed put certain aspects of the book through a proverbial combine harvester.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
There were a couple of possibilities: one, the helmet was malfunctioning; two, this troll was deaf as the proverbial post.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
Vocabulary lists containing proverbial
Bridge to Terabithia
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100 SAT words Beginning with "P"
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Bronx Masquerade
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