proverbially

Such work is often very quickly proverbially, no better than yesterday's news.

Oh if only the ground would proverbially open and swallow me.

And, proverbially, there was never a cop around when you needed them.

I saw nothing unique in it, but then men are proverbially blind.

A cautious man is proverbially said to sleep with one eye open.

"You have a building which is proverbially attractive," she said, "but all the systems are out of order."

It is not to be wondered at, for stolen waters are proverbially sweet.

Women, children, and dogs proverbially know by instinct who the people are who really like them.

The temperature was proverbially hot, but tempers were not.

He screamed like the proverbially stuck pig and tried to shake her loose.

The two were inventors and proverbially poor business men, though they had amassed a fortune.

The English are proverbially a nation of shopkeepers, and they had put up their prices in all the shops for his special benefit.

Dirt is to baseball almost as apple pie proverbially is to America.

"I was particular to mention cow, which, in this instance, is proverbially less dangerous than the male, and much better eating. "

Elephants are proverbially sagacious, both in their wild state and when domesticated.

Tevez must have felt something along these lines, when he proverbially exploded.

The bride's family were proverbially wealthy bankers, originally based in Norwich.

Many rich men sat in Congress, and the Senate be came, proverbially, a millionaires' club.

Presumably Death had a bedroom, although proverbially Death never slept.

For want of practice, Venetian drivers are proverbially supposed to be the worst in Italy.

It was an unprecedented act, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal.

Some singers have voices that proverbially shatter glass.

Freedom is the naked truth, which is proverbially unromantic.

A bird in the hand, moreover, is proverbially worth two in the bush (no pun intended).

Necessity has been proverbially termed the mother of invention- the aphorism may be extended to virtue.