The phrase "a phrase saying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific expression or statement that conveys a particular meaning or sentiment.
Example: "There is a phrase saying that actions speak louder than words."
Alternatives: "an expression stating" or "a saying that".
At the insistence of Russia and China, a phrase saying that Iranian nuclear weapons would be a threat to peace was excised from the final text.
In the bounce messages, as they are known, strings of letters and numbers are followed by a phrase saying that a message could not be delivered.
To get the latest media news to your desktop or mobile, follow MediaGuardian on Twitter and Facebook This article was amended on 18 April 2012 to remove a phrase saying John McLellan had been escorted from the Scotsman building.
"There should be some flexibility and liberty in speaking a phrase, saying a phrase, or playing a phrase.
But when I realized "I'm tired" could be a phrase said by cars, it was, ahem, off to the races.
"For vegetarians that also eat fish, there's a phrase," said Okja co-writer Jon Ronson, a full-fledged vegetarian who also wrote Frank and The Men Who Stare At Goats.
In the Commons on Tuesday, Michael Fallon, the UK defence secretary, fell back on a well-worn ministerial phrase saying he "did not recognise" the £100bn figure.
"A harbinger of change is a good phrase," said R. Bethene Ervin, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and one of the authors of the report.
"This is a loaded phrase," said Mary Pattillo, a sociologist at Northwestern University.
Just as no clock rules a baseball game, "there are no definites to the length of a musical phrase," said the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, whose father-in-law was a professional pitcher in Japan.
A new phrase said to have been proposed was "actions to prevent the killing of Jews".
