The phrase "a universal expression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a phrase or gesture that is understood across different cultures or languages.
Example: "The smile is often considered a universal expression of happiness."
Alternatives: "a common expression" or "a widely recognized expression".
Also, there is currently an absence of a universal expression to predict particle entrainment in both gases and liquids.
Error analysis demonstrated the following expression: Dcr=100.1914σL0.5517ρL−0.4830g−0.5170μL−0.0688 can give the most accurate prediction of Dcr as a universal expression.
The Tennyson is a universal expression of grief: a perfect fusion of sense and sound that bypasses your brain and makes your guts sad.
Through curve fitting, a universal expression has been obtained to predict the number of droplets produced by bubble bursting on free liquid surface in any air liquid system: Ndr=7.9 exp −DB/(0.338Dcr))−0.41.
It has become an international anthem, a universal expression of the longing for liberty, sung in recent years from South Africa to Athens; the dozens of versions on YouTube include a heartbreaking performance at the memorial service last November in Paris, in the stately courtyard of Les Invalides, for the victims of the terrorist attacks.
A universal expression has been derived to estimate the neutron transmission through a straight duct of length d and cross-sectional area A in direct view of the source, which only depends on A and on a small set of numerical coefficients.
The latter was performed with a new orchestral arrangement by Österling, and sung by a man, changing the theme from a woman's love over time for her husband to a more universal expression of life-long love in a relationship.
The results revealed that all the genes showed a near universal expression pattern, apart from GPR22 (Refs 21, 25).
"As I have moved around, there has been an almost universal expression of thanks to the US and to you in particular for freeing Iraq from Saddam's tyranny," Bremer assures his boss.
The letter devoted much more space to recounting what Mr. Bremer described as "an almost universal expression of thanks" from the Iraqi people "to the U.S. and to you in particular for freeing Iraq from Saddam's tyranny".
The letter devoted much more space to recounting what Bremer described as "an almost universal expression of thanks" from the Iraqi people "to the U.S. and to you in particular for freeing Iraq from Saddam's tyranny". In his 2006 memoir, Bremer said he had briefed senior officials in Washington on the plan, but he did not mention the exchange of letters with Bush.
