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The phrase "a phrase from a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific phrase that originates from a particular source or context.
Example: "I found a phrase from a famous poem that perfectly captures my feelings."
Alternatives: "a quote from a" or "a line from a".
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Finally (to borrow a phrase from a well-known British television advert), it's got an "ology".
"Die Fahne hoch!" ("The Flag on High") echoes a phrase from a Nazi marching song.
If you're short of inspiration, take a phrase from a song or poem.
What they seek, to coin a phrase from a one-nation Tory, the late Lord Hailsham, is an "elective dictatorship".
All in all, a good day to bury bad news, to borrow a phrase from a Blair-era spin-doctor.What does it all mean?
The pope, a Pole himself, raised the tone in 1997 by referring to Jews as "elder brethren", a phrase from a famous nationalist poem.
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He is to borrow a phrase from an ESPN segment aimed at general managers of virtual teams a "fantasy projection".
Failing such reform, NATO may be fairly described by a phrase from an earlier day: "pitiful, helpless giant".
Back in 2004, Ben Bernanke, then a Federal Reserve governor, borrowed a phrase from an academic research paper to give these happy developments a name: "the great moderation".
New Yorkers, she added, using a phrase from an upbeat business pamphlet of the time, saw themselves as a people "to whom nothing is impossible".
More engrossing was Laurence Crane's Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section (a phrase from an interview with cyclist Chris Froome), whose arresting central section rocks to and fro between chords that sound marvellously blissed out.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com