The phrase "a certain phrasing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific way of expressing something without naming it directly.
Example: "In her speech, she used a certain phrasing that resonated deeply with the audience."
Alternatives: "a specific expression" or "a particular wording".
There will be a certain phrase or two we will come up with and emphasize this week".
Roberts also excels as an average Joe who suddenly becomes sexual catnip to passers-by when he says a certain phrase.
If only Blair and Brown had listened to him, Hutton suggests more than once, we wouldn't be in the state we're in – to coin a certain phrase.
I have seen some students get marks "capped" because they haven't included a certain phrase or diagram, even though their overall work was of a high standard.
As online commenters try to put Mr. Jobs's life in perspective, a certain phrase has come up, whether at tech sites like Slashdot or Gizmodo: "Bill Gates put a computer on every desk.
When we talked in his study in Somerville, Dornstein quoted Elie Wiesel: "Sometimes it happens that we travel for a long time without knowing that we have made the long journey solely to pronounce a certain word, a certain phrase, in a certain place.
Sometimes you're just relaxing and a melody pops into your head, along with a certain phrase: "Shower the people you love with love," or "I've seen fire and I've seen rain".
'When Alice wrote Lucky [a memoir due out here in June],' says Glen, 'I read that manuscript multiple times, and every single time, I underlined a certain phrase, and I said, "This has gotta go".
Many of them are happy and eager to talk; one was soliciting the help of passers-by to complete a work (she wished to know how to say and write a certain phrase in Hebrew vernacular a quest that might take time to complete in a yachty southern suburb).
As a tongue-in-cheek public service, she leads us through the government's official list of indications that you are having a stroke: a matter of closing your eyes and trying to touch your finger to your nose, or saying a certain phrase while holding your tongue.
