synonym, watchword, hallmark, epitome, catchword, exemplar, buzzword, bastion, hotbed, de rigueur, touchstone, commonplace, paragon, rallying cry, leitmotif, euphemism, bane, rapine, signifier, staple, symbol, haven, mantra, mecca, personification, mainstay, oxymoron, shorthand, cesspit, laughingstock, metonym, catchphrase, lexicon, motto, embodiment, redolent, sine qua non, vogue, norm, reeks, antithesis, credo, doyen, fountainhead, quintessence, paramount, enfant terrible, awash, antidote, purveyor, vestige, cornerstone, foppery, voraciousness, soupcon, argot, spotlessness, parlance, chronicler, anathema, bullheadedness, heyday, ethos, bedfellows, whipping boy, annals, sobriquet, parvenu, apogee, bugbear, machiavellianism, cause celebre, acme, anachronism, paean, hanker, desuetude, wellspring, dirigisme, ennoblement, testament, coiner, oozes, reputation, acronym, pinnacle, lingua franca, oasis, locus classicus, bastardised, rapacity, shibboleth, slogan, jobbery, glorying, nabob, forerunner, sake, immobilism, characteristic, clannishness, sonneteer, encyclopedia, nickname, bogey, carnival, favorite, almanac, battleground, celebrities, cliche, craze, encyclopaedia, fad, favorites, grievance, harlequin, representative, methodical, phenomenalist, unemotional, bergsonian, bycase, casual, commonsensical, compartmental, conjectural, crosscultural, dispassionate, economistic, evenhanded, idealist, impressionistic, inspectional, meticulous, nominalistic, nondestructive, nonhistorical

proverbially

expression, locution, saying

adage, proverb, saw