The definition of proverbial is something well-known or commonly referred to.
(adjective)When someone always uses the same old excuse, over and over again until it becomes old news, this is an example of that person's proverbial excuse.
See proverbial in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
Origin: ME < LL proverbialis
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