Sentence examples for Pat phrase from inspiring English sources
But, as the Republican base grew more conservative and angry, Rubio was trapped as the candidate of the Party's dwindling élite, and then, once Chris Christie caught him repeating a pat phrase in a New Hampshire debate (the phrase was "Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing"), his candidacy became a joke.
It is that doubt poetry's ability to muddy a pat phrase or dislodge an accepted truism with an unexpected word or other sleight of hand that made Frost's performance resonate.
He had a pat phrase to describe the alliance that I'm not quite sure I wrote down correctly, since the witticisms are interchangeable — the government was an alignment of "socially liberal conservatives and economically conservative liberals," or some such mash.
Wagstaff, K. Noun phrase coreference as clustering.
"It was a classic Ed Tufte phrase — jaws dropped.
The Saul Bellow phrase is "the mental rabble of the wised-up world".
In the old high Tory phrase: the Queen's business must be carried on.
The shining "city upon a hill," the John Winthrop phrase that Ronald Reagan loved to quote, has been blemished.
"To borrow a Shakespeare phrase, 'the play's the thing.'".
Darwin was struck by Thomas Robert Malthus' phrase "struggle for existence" used of warring human tribes.
On "Reliable Sources" Sunday, Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty called the term "a George Orwell phrase".
