Sentence examples similar to a normal locution from inspiring English sources

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"A normal car.

A normal person.

A normal bank?

Not a normal situation.

A normal reservations line?!?

A normal person.' ALAN FEUER.

So, the difference between a Verbiage and a locution is that whereas the former is construed by a noun group, the latter is construed by a clause.

Sometime in the not-so-distant past, "to die for," became a populist, foodie locution, an in-the-know way to express extreme pleasure.

A number of people suggested I use "First World War," a locution I found a bit foreign, and for good reason: most people offering that construction confessed to being Canadian.

"Page-swipers" conveys the notion of motion — the reader's finger gliding on a glowing screen — but as a locution, it will never catch on.

"Weird John Brown," Melville called him, in a weirdly contemporary locution, and for a long time he was shuffled to the edges of American weirdness, among the staring-mad homicidal nuts and assassins.

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