proverbiality

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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