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HOUSEHOLD WORD

Traducere în limba română

household word substantiv

zicătoare; cuvânt obişnuit, expresie curentă;

his name is a household word numele lui e pe toate buzele.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Would that I had some brighter ending to communicate to my readers, but these are the chronicles of fact, and I must follow to their dark crisis the strange chain of events which for some days made Riding Thorpe Manor a household word through the length and breadth of England.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I started when I saw the name, for it was that of none other than—well, perhaps even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name which is a household word all over the earth—one of the highest, noblest, most exalted names in England.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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