We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Real and proverbial doors had shut. Softly. I didn't have to slam anything. The winds of change did that for me.

We must place our hand upon the proverbial hot stove to burn ourselves in order to learn that the stove is hot, and we mustn't touch it.

"It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every

My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.

More and more Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.