The phrase "a fancy phrase for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining that a term or expression is a more elaborate or sophisticated way of saying something simpler.
Example: "The term 'utilize' is just a fancy phrase for 'use'."
Alternatives: "an elaborate term for" or "a sophisticated way to say".
In the meantime, a few examples show the kind of things that might be possible.Many interesting possibilities are opened up by "user-generated location-specific content"—a fancy phrase for digital wireless graffiti.
Neither is the "representativeness heuristic," which is a fancy phrase for allowing salient details, such as the sight of bloodied bodies on a Paris sidewalk, to overload our brains and prevent a calm, probabilistic assessment of the dangers we face.
Quantitative easing, the third tranche of which was announced in the US last week (QE3), is just a fancy phrase for buying bonds, notably mortgage-backed-securities, in which operation the Federal Reserve takes assets from the banks and gives them cash.
Ms. Sozzani is an established pioneer of the concept store, a fancy phrase for places that avoid the impersonality of department stores while flouting boutique exclusivity by stocking big names and no-names alongside chopsticks, candles and experimental upside-down frocks.
A "quantum of solace" is a fancy phrase for "quantity of comfort".
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It's a fancy latinate phrase for "just this once" and it's a request to appear as an attorney in a court where you aren't admitted to practice.
Mot juste is a fancy French phrase, coined by Flaubert, that roughly translates to "the perfect word for the occasion".
I don't fancy the phrase for describing the service.
Alec, quoted most frequently as an England bowler and as a Test selector, never went in for fancy phrases.
It's possible that, even after one of the most memorably dramatic speeches in modern American history, they may still be betting on what they think is an eloquence aversion out there in the heartland; the ingrained suspicion that fancy phrase-making is a fig leaf for lack of substance.
