The phrase "a phrase form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the structure or type of a phrase in linguistic or grammatical contexts.
Example: "In this lesson, we will explore a phrase form that conveys a specific meaning in different contexts."
Alternatives: "a phrase structure" or "a phrase type".
The first statement is not brilliantly-worded, just repeating a phrase form the abstract that becomes quite ambiguous when taken out of its original context.
When stuck for a phrase, form or image, they raid their stores of Farsi, Arabic, Nepalese or turn to Rumi, Mahmoud Darwish, Ocean Vuong.
So, this will not be the "machine that goes Bing" (to adapt a phrase form Monty Python), but the machine the goes "B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b……ing".
Dimly I recalled a phrase form the bible -- is it Ezekiel?
A phrase formed in his mind — this is so unlike me — that he would find himself repeating throughout the night, until the moment that he became his own opposite.
This is an example, in phrase form, of a "Janus word" -- a term that is its own antonym.
BOTTOM LINE The phrase "form over function" is particularly apt here — the hotel seemed more appropriate as a place for playful photo shoots than as a place to stay.
Searching and indexing can be primitive: a search for "cake" in the 50-recipe Cook's Illustrated e-book gets unwanted results like pancakes and the phrase "form the mixture into cakes".
Louis Sullivan, the architect, coined the phrase "form follows function".
Clearly the Nazis, Communists, and postmodernists could not agree, and there is still not an inkling of consensus about the movement that even the most casual student of architecture associates with the phrase "form follows function".
That's kind of what I try to do with my work that crazy phrase form my mom always stuck in my mind.
