What's the difference between proverbial and proverbialism?
Proverbial
Definition:
(a.) Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial.
(a.) Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if it were true that the rich are hard working, this wouldn't distinguish them from most people who lack the proverbial pot to micturate in.
(2) The next thing you know, the TV broadcast clicked off and that was that.” Protest singers have come and gone through the decades – mostly notably Dylan himself, whose devotion to radical causes didn’t last much longer than the proverbial five minutes – but Baez has remained true to her beliefs.
(3) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(4) Motherhood is not only the proverbial hardest job you'll ever love, as the slogan goes – it is also the hardest job you'll ever do.
(5) As half an hour of vox-poppery proves, this is also a place where the supposedly rarefied issue of electoral reform may actually come up on the proverbial doorstep.
(6) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
(7) "One night, we were playing in this place outside Rockville and the proverbial fat man with a cigar came and said, 'Do you want to make a record?'"
(8) The relegation fears of the travelling support no doubt intensified by defeat in a proverbial six-pointer.
(9) SOAEs are one of the proverbial key holes through which we can have a glimpse of what is happening into the cochlea.
(10) Legally Blonde Beneath its fluffy and frivolous exterior, Legally Blonde has feminism coming out the proverbial.
(11) Capable committed surgeons undertaking difficult-to-hopeless cases no one else would touch with the proverbial bargepole would come out resembling barbarous maniacs.
(12) For centuries, the European brown bear has been pushed by deforestation into increasingly remote areas, to do what a bear proverbially does in woods.
(13) Already irritated with Speaker John Bercow for being long-winded, unctuous and perceptibly anti-Conservative in the House of Commons, the idea that his Labour-supporting wife would go on the programme's Channel 5 reincarnation had been a red rag to the proverbial.
(14) The "tofu and yoga health plan" that's been my default for so long has its merits, but it will it be of little use the day one is run over by the proverbial bus.
(15) We’d acknowledge that what we see on the proverbial “street” is just a phantasm, just a trick of the eye.
(16) "Sir Martin, like all of us, is not immune from being hit by the proverbial bus," he said, in a letter to shareholders.
(17) Norway Aligned to the Viking Empire bloc Alexander Rybak's song Fairytale is the bookies' favourite partly because Alexander is such a poppet and also because his song is as nelly as the proverbial elephant.
(18) Was this now to be the proverbial duck shoot for City?
(19) In order for me to put my proverbial money where my mouth is, Compassion in World Farming has just launched our Good Pig award programme in China.
(20) How Messrs Samaras, Rajoy etc must wish that they could find such riches down the side of the proverbial sofa.
Proverbialism
Definition:
(n.) A proverbial phrase.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if it were true that the rich are hard working, this wouldn't distinguish them from most people who lack the proverbial pot to micturate in.
(2) The next thing you know, the TV broadcast clicked off and that was that.” Protest singers have come and gone through the decades – mostly notably Dylan himself, whose devotion to radical causes didn’t last much longer than the proverbial five minutes – but Baez has remained true to her beliefs.
(3) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(4) Motherhood is not only the proverbial hardest job you'll ever love, as the slogan goes – it is also the hardest job you'll ever do.
(5) As half an hour of vox-poppery proves, this is also a place where the supposedly rarefied issue of electoral reform may actually come up on the proverbial doorstep.
(6) I did.” He’s done you up like a … well, a proverbial kipper.
(7) "One night, we were playing in this place outside Rockville and the proverbial fat man with a cigar came and said, 'Do you want to make a record?'"
(8) The relegation fears of the travelling support no doubt intensified by defeat in a proverbial six-pointer.
(9) SOAEs are one of the proverbial key holes through which we can have a glimpse of what is happening into the cochlea.
(10) Legally Blonde Beneath its fluffy and frivolous exterior, Legally Blonde has feminism coming out the proverbial.
(11) Capable committed surgeons undertaking difficult-to-hopeless cases no one else would touch with the proverbial bargepole would come out resembling barbarous maniacs.
(12) For centuries, the European brown bear has been pushed by deforestation into increasingly remote areas, to do what a bear proverbially does in woods.
(13) Already irritated with Speaker John Bercow for being long-winded, unctuous and perceptibly anti-Conservative in the House of Commons, the idea that his Labour-supporting wife would go on the programme's Channel 5 reincarnation had been a red rag to the proverbial.
(14) The "tofu and yoga health plan" that's been my default for so long has its merits, but it will it be of little use the day one is run over by the proverbial bus.
(15) We’d acknowledge that what we see on the proverbial “street” is just a phantasm, just a trick of the eye.
(16) "Sir Martin, like all of us, is not immune from being hit by the proverbial bus," he said, in a letter to shareholders.
(17) Norway Aligned to the Viking Empire bloc Alexander Rybak's song Fairytale is the bookies' favourite partly because Alexander is such a poppet and also because his song is as nelly as the proverbial elephant.
(18) Was this now to be the proverbial duck shoot for City?
(19) In order for me to put my proverbial money where my mouth is, Compassion in World Farming has just launched our Good Pig award programme in China.
(20) How Messrs Samaras, Rajoy etc must wish that they could find such riches down the side of the proverbial sofa.