"adapt the phrase" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used anytime you want to make changes to a specific phrase in order to fit a specific context or purpose. Example: In her speech, the presenter adapted the famous quote "all's fair in love and war" to "all's fair in love and business" to highlight the competitive nature of the modern workplace.
To adapt the phrase of the hour: hell, no.
Assuming otherwise, to adapt the phrase, is to put the cart before the jackass.Adam Yore Treasure Island, Florida.
Playing the blues, and responding to it, teaches the importance of improvisation – particularly in relation to black life which, to adapt the phrase of another of Murray's admirers, the drummer and writer Stanley Crouch, may be obliged to "invent its own structures as it goes along".
In our study, we have tried to adapt the phrasing of the items to increase their relevance to the studied behaviour and the particular context, but some important beliefs regarding telemonitoring adoption in the target population might have been overlooked.
According to Palmer, songwriters adapted the phrase for other artists and it was "soon absorbed into the lingua franca of blues, jazz, and rock and roll".
5 Finally, we cannot exclude the possibility that an unusually short book editor adapted the phrase based on his or her personal experience.
To adapt the tool to local culture, we adjusted some of the phrasing to better align the survey with culture-specific interpretations.
Phillips's poems are about the "daily practice" of writing poems, to adapt a phrase from the painter Gerhard Richter; like some of Richter's canvases, Phillips's poems often seem to exist mainly to capture the small changes in ambience in a room where one makes art.
So, this will not be the "machine that goes Bing" (to adapt a phrase form Monty Python), but the machine the goes "B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b……ing".
But to adapt a phrase of Donald Rumsfeld's, the Republicans have to go to war with the general they've got.
