This was essentially the straw on the back of the proverbial camel. Evidently this is a proverbial expression. The phrase originated in ancient Greece and may originally have been proverbial. Dropping [Australia's standards] through the floor into the proverbial sewer. Customers did not immediately beat the proverbial path. The song closes off with Lee giggling, which was described as "the proverbial last laugh". Many of the lines have entered the French language as standard phrases, often proverbial. The standard of ordinary negligence is what conduct deviates from the proverbial "reasonable person". Several accounts of his proverbial wit survive. Plautus' proverbs and proverbial expressions number into the hundreds. His rejection of doubtful lines made his severity proverbial. A "Scotch Pedlar's Pack in Poland" became a proverbial expression. A miner and rugby union player, Ifor "ruled the household with the proverbial firm hand". Additionally, in modern psychoanalysis dreams are a valuable instrument for examining proverbial conflicts. I think it's the proverbial all-hands-on-deck&colon; government, civil society, the private sector.