Proverbial

(adj.) widely known and spoken of; 'her proverbial lateness'; 'the proverbial absentminded professor'; 'your proverbial dizzy blonde' .

(adj.) of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb; 'he kicked the proverbial bucket'; 'the proverbial grasshopper' .

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• His facility in making hasty but intensely graphic sketches is proverbial. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was the youngest of thirteen children, and his parents were as poor as the proverbial church mice. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The proverbial separation of town and gown, the cultivation of academic seclusion, operate in this direction. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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