"a strange phrasing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe words or expression that are unusual or unexpected. For example, "The author's use of a strange phrasing made it difficult to understand what they were trying to say."
I can't count the number of times I have sat at my computer, opened YouTube and typed a strange phrase into the search box: "knee 1".
Again he is a unique character, a Manchester United player through and through with an attacking flair - a strange phrase to use about a goalkeeper, I know - and a good technical keeper.
In those bygone years of 2003-4, Kevin Millar was the Sox' talkative frontman at first base, having invented the rally cry "Cowboy up," a strange phrase that led to a thousand English master's theses trying to deconstruct it.
When he went to declare asylum, he noticed a strange phrase in the application that asked migrants to attest that the last country they were in before reaching Europe — rather than the country they had fled — was too dangerous to return to.
By this same logic, a state could rationally refuse to marry an opposite-sex infertile couple, claiming that their union differs from (to coin a strange phrase) fertile couples and therefore should not be afforded the same societal and legal recognition.
10) "This map showed a good agreement... ........ is strange phrasing.
Despite strong singing, typically intense and full throated with strange phrasing and emphasis, the songs can grow dry and austere.
I thought the Chinese wanted my views on the economy, but what they were really after was an explanation of strange phrases in the press, and the frequent use of the expression U-turn.
"So cold the river": that's the strange phrase uttered by a dying man in Michael Koryta's calculatingly spooky new novel.
