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proverbial

widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb; "he kicked the proverbial bucket"; "the proverbial grasshopper"

Synonyms:

• accepted,
• acknowledged,
• aphoristic,
• apophthegmatic,
• apothegmatic,
• archetypal,
• axiomatic,
• common,
• commonly known,
• commonplace,
• crisp,
• current,
• epigrammatic,
• exemplary,
• familiar,
• formulaic,
• formulistic,
• gnomic,
• hackneyed,
• homiletic,
• household,
• moralistic,
• notorious,
• pithy,
• platitudinous,
• pointed,
• public,
• pungent,
• sententious,
• succinct,
• talked-about,
• talked-of,
• terse,
• time-honored,
• traditional,
• trite,
• truistic,
• typical,
• universally admitted,
• universally recognized,
• well-kenned,
• well-known,
• well-recognized,
• well-understood,
• widely known