Plautus' proverbs and proverbial expressions number into the hundreds.

"Ordnung muss sein" is a German proverbial expression which translates as "there must be order."

The former is a short narrative for a shorth myth or proverbial expression and is equivalent to a verb.

It is just that, to employ a proverbial expression, he does not practise what he preaches.

It has passed into proverbial expressions.

Sometimes it is difficult to draw a distinction between idiomatic phrase and proverbial expression.

This is a proverbial expression meaning to be shipwrecked.

It was considered "the farthest voyage" according to an ancient Greek proverbial expression, the easternmost location in that society's known world, where the sun rose.

A similar form is proverbial expressions ("to bite the dust").

This expression has become a familiar proverbial expression; and it has also found its way into American legal writing, as in: