proverbiality

Noun

 * 1) The state or characteristic of being proverbial.
 * 2) * 1874, "English vers de société," The Living Age, vol. 122, no. 1580, p. 718:
 * For such a quatrain and couplet as the following it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality:—
 * They eat and drink and scheme and plod
 * And go to church on Sunday;
 * And many are afraid of God
 * And more of Mrs. Grundy.
 * The Cockney met in Middlesex or Surrey
 * Is often cold and always in a hurry.
 * Is often cold and always in a hurry.