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"ref": "1947, Miracle on 34th Street (transcript)",
"text": "Doris: You're making me feel like the proverbial stepmother."
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"text": "the proverbial smoking gun",
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"text": "The visit was a warning shot across our proverbial bows",
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"text": "You'll find they've got you by the proverbials."
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"pro‧ver‧bial"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Rhymes:Spanish/al",
"Rhymes:Spanish/al/3 syllables",
"Spanish 3-syllable words",
"Spanish adjectives",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish epicene adjectives",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"proverbial"
],
"links": [
[
"proverbial",
"proverbial#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɾobeɾˈbjal/"
},
{
"ipa": "[pɾo.β̞eɾˈβ̞jal]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-al"
}
],
"word": "proverbial"
}
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