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".
Use or adapt the phrases that work for you.
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.
To evaluate GPs' fears, avoidance attitudes and beliefs, we did not modify the phrasing of items but slightly adapted the first sentence of instructions to patients.
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.
To adapt his phrasing, I'd call it a politically conservative retirement community.
