The phrase "acquired phrases" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to phrases or expressions that someone has learned or obtained over time, often through experience or study.
Example: "Through years of practice, she has developed a repertoire of acquired phrases that enhance her communication skills."
Alternatives: "learned expressions" or "gained phrases".
When they performed it again on Tuesday, it was evident how much more distinction of musical phrasing Lil Buck has recently acquired: phrase endings tapered away with wonderfully gentle hovering gestures into repose, and the music's climax brought a searing burst of fast through-the-body pulsations, as if the swan's energy were making a final claim on life.
Seldom has our national lexicon acquired a phrase so appealing to the imagination, or so open to misinterpretation.
Make sure to grab a ticket for "The Language Archive," a new play by Julia Cho that offers theatergoers a rare chance to acquire a phrase or two of that little-used international tongue.
This film is a virtual definition of the phrase "acquired taste".
Almost all these elements are acquired from iconic looks, phrases, and legacies depicted by director Jennie Livingston in her 1991 documentary Paris Is Burning.
In a phrase that acquired a queasy literalness in this context you sensed that he knew where the bodies were buried, and probably knew quite a few of the people who'd put them there.
Her talk was billed as a discussion of "American exceptionalism," but it had none of the politicized edge that phrase has acquired for Mr. Gingrich, who accuses President Obama of not believing that the United States has a leading role among nations.
If the stuff was acquired in dubious circumstances a phrase stretched to cover everything from illicit archaeological digs to war-time loot to the idols of heathen gods handed over to missionaries by their converts then it should go back to where it came from, forthwith.
But unfortunately the incorrect phrase has acquired currency, so I shall use it here.
Or would it be more accurate to say that the elegant 73-year-old singer infuses these songs with such powerful echoes of her own life experience that their wittily turned romantic phrases acquire a new reflective depth?
