Associations to the word «Proverbially»

Wiktionary

PROVERBIALLY, adverb. In a manner that uses proverbs; in proverbs.
PROVERBIALLY, adverb. In a manner reminiscent of a proverb.

Dictionary definition

PROVERBIALLY, adverb. In the manner of something that has become a byword; "this proverbially bitter plant, wormwood".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne