proverbial
लौकिक
definition
adjective
I'm going to stick out like the proverbial sore thumb
(of a word or phrase) referred to in a proverb or idiom.
translation of 'proverbial'
कहावती,
लोकसिद्ध
adjective
सब-विदित,
लोक-प्रसिद्ध,
लौकिक
example
In other words, the government is between the 'proverbial' rock and the hard place.
Taken at face value, the question seems simple enough but scratch it and the hidden prejudices and stereotypes tumble out of the cupboard like the 'proverbial' skeletons.
On campus, they stick out like the 'proverbial' sore thumb because they are the ones with the bandaged fingers.
You don't have to be a Democrat, a liberal, or a socialist to acknowledge that the 'proverbial' wheels are falling off the juggernaut.
The title of the movie refers to the 'proverbial' elephant in the living room - the big problem that is ignored for so long that people are no longer able to recognize it.
It's just so much easier to curse like the 'proverbial' inner city sailor than to speak in a traditionally sophisticated and cultured manner.
For those who may have been living under the 'proverbial' rock, Andy Warhol is perhaps the most well-known American artist of the twentieth century.
I was notorious for talking myself straight into a 'proverbial' brick wall, and that was something I certainly didn't want to do in this situation.
She looked as though there was something she wanted to say, but either she couldn't find the words or the 'proverbial' cat had her tongue because she didn't say anything.
Conversely, an inconsistency in your essay will stick out like the 'proverbial' sore thumb.
It was the 'proverbially' dark and stormy night - the coldest February weather in recorded history, with sheets of rain and a biting wind.
This is cited as farm wisdom, and there is no reason to doubt its 'proverbiality' , although a few more references would be welcome.
Traditional, local institutions were thought to be the solution to what is 'proverbially' known as ‘the tragedy of the commons.’
We have been pleading for years for a level playing field over which our Government has miserably failed us; but through a 'proverbially' perverse back door the same end has been achieved.
She sums up her social experience by saying 'proverbially' , ‘The poorer you are, the happier you are.’
This study holds that around the time of marriage, happiness increases briefly during what is 'proverbially' called the honeymoon period, but that after one year it returns to the level that prevailed more than one year before marriage.
There was no ‘general collapse of 'proverbiality' ’ and no ‘nearly complete blackout’ of proverbs, and, as will be shown in this present study, not even Lord Chesterfield himself could escape the spell of proverbs.
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