proverbial

Example Sentences

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“The scale is too much. There’s too much risk for any company … to put all of their proverbial eggs in one basket.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

The Pitt is a sort of proverbial pit that we've all found ourselves in since Covid that we can't quite climb out of.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Investors should look beyond the immediate headlines of war and the energy price shock and instead focus on fundamentals and climb the proverbial wall of worry, one leading bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Next to all that, a rocky relationship styled into an on-and-off situationship for a reality TV subplot is the proverbial hill of beans Rick Blaine mentioned in “Casablanca.”

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

The same can be said of the novel after the best-seller, the album that follows the gold record, or the proverbial sophomore jinx.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos