proverbiality
释义与例句
n.
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1.
The state or characteristic of being proverbial.
不可数For such a quatrain and couplet as the following it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality:— They eat and drink and scheme and plod And go to church on Sunday; And many are afraid of God And more of Mrs. Grundy. . . . The Cockney met in Middlesex or Surrey Is often cold and always in a hurry.
词源
From proverbial + -ity.
来源:wiktionary