To use an old-fashioned phrase, students had undergone an examination of conscience as the initial step of their philosophical journey.
"Indeed, to use an old-fashioned phrase, was 'set-up' by her to do this".
In an old-fashioned phrase, he was one of nature's gentlemen.
Arz be hozuretan ke means, delightfully, "a petition to your presence that … " – a very formal, old-fashioned phrase that amounts to "If I could just say … " As I got older, I grew increasingly frustrated that this world of knowledge had been denied to me.
In this programme we are teaching you the very cute but slightly old-fashioned phrase: not a sausage.
A 1938 brochure advertising luggage illustrates the young copywriter's zeal for the well-fashioned phrase.
At times, it feels like the era of undisputed masterpieces is over, but it turns out that there's still work that deserves the old-fashioned phrase from the glory days of vinyl: "An essential library item".
"When people go through an event like the Irish war of independence they are politicised and then, if you'll forgive the old-fashioned phrase, they see the class forces that are at work". The worry is that these kinds of films inevitably create characters who share Loach's politics.
The old-fashioned phrase is "class warfare".
It contains several old-fashioned phrases, such as "must be good citizens -- support good works and charities -- and bear our fair share of taxes" and "maintain in good order the property that we are privileged to use".
DiCaprio is, to use an old-fashioned, studio-era phrase, an above-the-title player: a real star.
