Quotes About Byword

In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.

A proverb and a byword among all people.

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations.

Switzerland had somehow become a bywordfor Western laxity: any program or action that was deemed un- Islamic was reproached with a mocking reminder that Iran was by no means Switzerland.

Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon.

And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.