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Both the first and the final proposition have acquired something of a proverbial quality in German, employed as aphorisms independently of discussion of Wittgenstein.
He first started out as a general studio hand, the proverbial " gofer ": sweeping the floor, making coffee, fetching and carrying.
During the Bourbon Restoration, the Navy at first suffered from the compounded damage sustained during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, and from the incompetence and derilection of the royalist officer corps, as epitomised by the disaster of the frigate Méduse and her proverbial Raft of the Medusa.
As a judge of first instance Jessel was a revelation to those accustomed to the proverbial slowness of the chancery courts and of the Master of the Rolls who preceded him.
Sigmund Freud however was far from underestimating the power of early love ; recognised the validity of " the proverbial durability of first loves: on reviendra toujours à ses premières amours ".
The phrase " first, catch your hare ", while popularly thought to originate here, was already proverbial when the book was written.
The proverbial " rock bottom " for Disney came in 1985 when The Black Cauldron ( the first animated Disney film to be PG-rated by the MPAA ) failed to break even.
After a humiliating defeat to Hayes, and with the proverbial wolves at the door, Turner handed first team duties over to player-coach Phil Robinson while he concentrated on securing the club's financial future.
But it was made under a proverbial dark cloud, after an A & R person for the label proclaimed at the recording's commencement dinner that, given sales of his first two albums, it was a " miracle " that a third was being recorded at all.
The final match to decide the fate of the legendary Ashes urn finally began, and the proverbial first blood was drawn by England as Michael Vaughan won his third toss of the series ( much to the delight of the Brit Oval crowd ).
The final match to decide the fate of the legendary Ashes urn finally began, and the proverbial first blood was drawn by England as Michael Vaughan won his third toss of the series ( much to the delight of the partisan Oval crowd ).
Unlike Falstaff, he grows to become a more mature character, and this transformation an be observed in the first book, beginning with the moment where he decides to risk his life to protect the proverbial damsel in distress, Helena, in the midst of the ongoing Chmielnicki uprising.

proverbial and word
Tantalus's punishment for his act, now a proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction ( the source of the English word tantalise ), was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches.
Its equivalent in English would be something like “ cool dude .” The word has also been used to describe the proverbial Mexican Pachuco, delinquent, or outsider.

proverbial and often
But the quest for such an index goes on ceaselessly, with all manner of investors and speculators participating, ranging from the sedate institutional type virtually to the proverbial shoe-string operator, all seeking doggedly, studiously, daily -- and often nightly -- for the enchanting index that will foretell the eternal secret: Which way will the market move -- up or down??
Faust, and the adjective faustian, are often used to describe an arrangement in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success: the proverbial " deal with the Devil ".
" These covers are often regarded by fans as the proverbial " Coup De Grace ," or a perfect finish to the show that " sells " the band to the audience.
" Eucatastrophe " is often confused with deus ex machina, in that they both serve to pull the protagonist out of the proverbial ( or sometimes literal ) fire.
The prominence of La Corbière, especially for travellers by sea for whom rounding the rocky waters around the headland often means the roughest part of the journey from Guernsey or England but also the consolation that the boat is entering the final straight towards the harbour of St. Helier, has led to several proverbial expressions in Jèrriais:
" Because the phrase is used as a translation of a Spanish proverb with a different literal meaning (" muchas veces donde hay estacas no hay tocinos ," literally: " often where there are hooks hanging hams there are no hams "), it seems that the phrase was already considered proverbial in English at the time.

proverbial and like
Cady Partlow's head came up like that of the proverbial fire horse.
All versions and forms of the proverbial Golden Rule have one aspect in common: they all demand that people treat others in a manner in which they themselves would like to be treated.
The exhortation to love peace emanated from Hillel's most characteristic traits — from that proverbial meekness and mildness — as in the saying: " Let a man be always humble and patient like Hillel, and not passionate like Shammai " ( Shab.
The proverbial use of the Corn Crake's call to describe someone with a grating or unmelodious voice is illustrated in the quotation " thanks to a wee woman with a voice like a corncrake who believed she was an apprentice angel ".
Chaudhry countered by saying that Qarase was like a proverbial ostrich with its head in the sand.
The effect of these propositions upon conservative opinion was like that of the proverbial spark in a barrel of gunpowder.
It is evident that Metapontum was at this period still wealthy ; but its citizens had apparently, like their neighbors the Tarentines, fallen into a state of slothfulness and luxury, so that they were become almost proverbial for their lack of vigor.
Together they conduct interviews with several elderly witnesses whom they term “ elephants ”, based on the assumption that, like the proverbial elephants, they may have long memories.
This Buddhist evidence obviously indicates that like the women of Madra country, the ancient Kamboj women were also proverbial for their beauty.
Branding tended to be abolished like other judicial mutilations ( with notable exceptions, such as amputation under sharia law ), sooner and more widely than flogging, caning and similar corporal punishments, which normally aim ' only ' to pain and at worst cause stripe scars, although the most severe lashings ( not uncommon in penal colonies ) in terms of dosage and instrument ( such as the proverbial knout ) can even turn out to be lethal.
* Manufacturer-After a few weeks, the proverbial " training wheels " come off, and things like maintenance and shareholder happiness start becoming major issues.
The beauty of Madra women, like those others from the northwest including the Kamboja, Uttarakuru was proverbial.
This circumstance gave rise to a number of proverbial expressions, like Αντικυρας σε δει or " naviget Anticyram ," and to frequent allusions in the Greek and Latin writers.

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A miner and rugby player, Ifor " ruled the household with the proverbial firm hand ".
" To descend into the cave of Trophonios " became a proverbial way of saying " to suffer a great fright ".
Dirty McSquirty's cousin, he is the proverbial " person who is worse off than you ".
The form " poke " is now only used dialectically, or in such proverbial sayings as " a pig in a poke ".
During her period as a teen idol, Oleynik was described as " one of America's favorite 15-year-olds " and " the proverbial girl next door ".
The international, cosmopolitan views of Delchev could be summarized in his proverbial sentence: " I understand the world solely as a field for cultural competition among the peoples ".
According to Jan Baptist Bedaux, the broom could also symbolize proverbial chastity ; it " sweeps out impurities ".
Fyshers was the original name of the house now occupied by the redbrick Old Cage House, named after the pound for stray cattle and horses that once occupied the site of the parish room cottage holding for the proverbial " three acres and a cow ".
In High Society ( 1956 ) Gordon Richards in his role as Dexter-Haven's butler, makes stingers available at luncheon to those unfortunates who over-indulged in champagne in the previous evening's party as the proverbial " hair of the dog ".
Fishman describes the Jewish mother stereotype use by male Jewish writers as " a grotesque mirror image of the proverbial Woman of Valor ".
Templar claims to be working on his own, and the crime lord orders Templar to be taken for the proverbial " ride ".
The standard of ordinary negligence is what conduct one expects from the proverbial " reasonable person ".
Together they embody the proverbial principle to " see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil ".
In English, the expression – either in the Latin ( tempus fugit ) or English form (" time flies ") – is proverbial, generally with the intended sense, " Time's a-wasting ".
Stories about his extreme generosity have made him an icon to Arabs up till the present day, as in the proverbial phrase " more generous than Hatem ".

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