as the proverb says; as they say...

commonly referred to as; common term

custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular

the mundane world; the world of mortals

common saying; proverb; colloquial speech

everyday routine; ordinary affairs

common people; laity (i.e. not priests)

vernacular name; lay name (of a priest)

conventional patterns; cliché

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

layman; layperson; original home of a monk

clichéd; tacky

common saying; proverb

common saying; proverb

(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])

nonstandard form of a Chinese character

intolerably vulgar

Extraordinary people in our ordinary world, short stories by novelist Feng Jicai 馮驥才|冯骥才[Feng2 Ji4 cai2]

common sayings (idiom); widely circulated proverbs

customs change with time (idiom); other times, other manners; O Tempora, O Mores!