1. Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers.

2. It is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct.

3. The proverbially dour New England Puritan.

4. Taking the first step proverbially costs the most.

5. The police are proverbially inquisitive.

6. Why , medicine is proverbially nasty.

7. The woman is proverbially stupid.

8. Minute fragments of shoot apices are proverbially difficult to culture.

1. It is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct.