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How to pronounce “proverbial”
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Pronunciation guide for proverbial
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of proverbial with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine 11 minutes, 24 seconds
Those machines go the proverbial junkyard.
- Definition summary
- Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce proverbial
Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine 11 minutes, 24 seconds
Those machines go the proverbial junkyard.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “proverbial”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale.
- Optionally placed before an element of a well-known proverb or metaphor to emphasize that the element is not being used in a literal sense (see Usage notes below)
- Widely known; famous; stereotypical.
- [Noun]
- (euphemistic) Used to replace a word that might be considered unacceptable in a particular situation, when using a well-known phrase.
- (euphemistic, in the plural) The groin or the testicles.
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