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With a glorious start to the meteorological spring, coming in like the proverbial lamb rather than lion, temperatures have risen thanks to increasingly mild air, boosted by plentiful sunshine and longer daylight hours.

It would be a tragedy to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater given that we are faced with an opportunity to actually make work better — for everyone.

I don’t smoke cigarettes, but one where you’re smoking a proverbial cigarette and the wine is flowing.

Meloni said in a statement that she was "very happy to have found him alert and responsive. We joked as always. He hasn't lost his proverbial sense of humour."

The road to new episodes is long and winding, and it might eventually disappear into the proverbial darkness the way previous attempts to revisit “Buffy” did.