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Перевод: byword

[существительное]
поговорка ; прибаутка ; любимое словечко; притча во языцех; часто повторяемое словечко; олицетворение; символ

Тезаурус:

1. Describing Sellafield as "a byword for the dirty end of the industry", it echoed the arguments of environmental groups that there was now no national economic justification for its operation.
2. While the demand for "great economy" meant that Dissenting Gothic became a byword for machine-produced, dull buildings, this was not always the case.
3. The agreement contradicted the promise of Arab self-rule that Britain had made to Sherif Hussein of Mecca (King Hussein's great-grandfather) and has become a byword for duplicity.
4. Britain was a byword for strikes.
5. The Railway Works, established in mid-Victorian times to produce locomotives for the London and North-Western Railway, had shortly afterwards changed to the manufacture of carriages, most notably those for royal trains, and "made in Wolverton" was a byword for quality in coach building.
6. Sulla's successor in the eastern command, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, became a byword for luxury and personal indulgence.
7. Hall's devotion to America became a byword and in the 1880s he was called "an American preacher" although one listener added, "though allusions to things American are frequent in the sermons he is heartily English in thought and speech".
8. They lived together peaceably enough, busying themselves with good works and their neighbours' affairs, and collecting objets d'art for their overcrowded gem of a house with a ruthless zeal which was a byword for miles around.
9. Lambeth - whose leader, Joan Twelves, resigned this week - has been run notoriously badly by a Labour-controlled council and is almost a byword for filth and incompetence.
10. The reason American tourists became a byword for vulgarity in Europe was that suddenly they were working-class Americans going abroad.
11. Until late antiquity Vulso's triumph remained a byword for luxury.
12. Reality was his byword and Drew's rugged features and dexterity with horses made him a natural choice.
13. The destroyed South is named in "Blue Grass", byword for Tate's native Southern state of Kentucky, rammed hard against "Troy" in controlled synaesthesia that identifies conflagration with fruition: