Proverbial

a.	1.	Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. - Sir W. Temple.
	2.	Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb.

Adj.	1.	proverbial - of or relating to or resembling or expressed in a proverb; "he kicked the proverbial bucket"; "the proverbial grasshopper"
	2.	proverbial - widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentiminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

accepted, acknowledged, aphoristic, apophthegmatic, apothegmatic, archetypal, axiomatic, 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

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