He's got about 4 of his proverbial 15 minutes left.

How does it feel to be the proverbial man who has everything?

It was as if the proverbial light had finally come on.

"I would probably give her the proverbial 100 days, see how she does."

History was the proverbial open book to him - or so he had always thought.

He took to it like the proverbial fish to water.

He was between the proverbial rock and a hard place.

After the visit, he saw the proverbial light, and the rest is history.

It was the proverbial answer in search of a question.

When she left, there seemed to be a proverbial spring to her step.

He went out like the proverbial light the second the plane left the ground.

Something really is going on with the proverbial "Arab street."

The result was a level of corruption which became proverbial.

The proverbial hand so bad it could not make a foot.

And, of course, I wanted to hang its proverbial head on my wall.

Everything should therefore be done to find the proverbial golden mean.

Another subject high on the proverbial agenda is the family.

From their point of view, he was like the proverbial cavalry.

But now, the economics of all this have hit a proverbial wall.

We both know there's that proverbial fine line between love and hate.

If you want a proverbial sea of blue, it's going to take more than a hundred.

A lot of it has to do with having made the proverbial mistakes that you make along the way.

It is the coach that sent him over the proverbial edge.

Would he just be opening the proverbial can of worms?

The end, the proverbial straw that you've been looking for.