proverbial

The beaver in this instance upheld the reputation of the proverbial one: her output was prodigious.

The busyness of a beaver is proverbial.

I grew up in a prefab house on Main Street in 1950s suburbia, the second and last child of a proverbial nuclear family.

Mr. Obama has presented himself as a fresh face, unsteeped in Washington and the proverbial “politics as usual.”