"Bucke-basket," they point out, is a peculiar phrase, odd to have isolated in a scholarly work like a dictionary.
That seems a peculiar phrase, but when I quiz him about it, he says he only meant that he writes in public places.
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified in front of the Senate last month on the state of the economy, he pulled out a peculiar phrase to describe the job market.
There were moments of peculiar phrasing here and there, and once or twice the energy Mr. Rangell brought to the Bach threatened to derail him.
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor Once you've got used to the peculiar phrasing, lack of capitals, shifting between two times, and all the other strange features of the book, it is a compelling – if not always easy – read.
Welsh flits between standard English, in which he is not entirely comfortable ("Davie felt like a newly crowned emperor surveying his fiefdom", to cite but one peculiar phrase), and the more expressive but limited schemie demotic, in which he is fluent - is, in fact, the lad himself.
People who remember differently are, in Irving's peculiar phrase, "the Auschwitz Survivors, Survivors of the Holocaust, and Other Liars — A.S.S.H.O.L.E.S".
But "Forget You!" can seem inauthentic — the peculiar phrase for such foul-mouthed-turned-mealy-mouthed expressions is "minced oaths" — and probably will not get the girl's attention.
Over the past six years, I've uttered the most peculiar phrases -- things I never would've imagined myself saying before becoming a mother.
1889, referring to the construction of statutes, which provides that 'words and phrases shall be taken in their plain, or ordinary and usual, sense; but technical words and phrases, having a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law, shall be understood according to their technical import.' Undoubtedly the word 'suicide' in its usual sense includes all cases of self-destruction.
But the phrase "grammar schools" has a peculiar effect on the political classes.
