Usually means: Use of proverbs as expressions.
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  6. proverbialism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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▸ noun:  A proverbial phrase.

Similar:
proverbialist, byword, proverb, antiproverb, parody, proverbial, paroemia, set phrase, proverbiologist, phraseologism, more...

Opposite:
literalism, factualism, realism

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Similar:
proverbialist, byword, proverb, antiproverb, parody, proverbial, paroemia, set phrase, proverbiologist, phraseologism, more...

Opposite:
literalism, factualism, realism



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