The phrase "ambiguous phrase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a phrase that has multiple meanings or interpretations, leading to confusion.
Example: "The term 'bank' can be an ambiguous phrase, as it may refer to a financial institution or the side of a river."
Alternatives: "vague expression" or "unclear phrase".
The first item in each pair was the subject of the ambiguous phrase, while the second item was unique and was described without ambiguity.
We designed the model to maximize sensitivity to ambiguity by testing only the period during the sentence at which the effects of ambiguity would occur i.e. in the second half of the sentence following the ambiguous phrase.
It's an ambiguous phrase.
On the ambiguous phrase "Beverages only in main cabin": "Those poor thirsty first-class passengers".
Since then, it has claimed to have produced "a nuclear deterrent," North Korea's ambiguous phrase for a nuclear weapons arsenal.
Few people were prepared to use such a term, however: instead, someone coined the ambiguous phrase "shoot-to-kill".
Mr. Gillerman disparaged those phrases as "grudging references to terrorism" and "carefully crafted, often constructively ambiguous phrases".
Whatever spoils a line — ambiguous phrasing, botched timing, faulty enunciation — he is the first to expose it.
In the same way "the big society", "back to basics" and "family values" are examples of equally vacuous, ambiguous phrases.
In a series of sometimes confused briefings by State Department officials, and a somewhat ambiguous phrasing in the White House memo, there were different accounts of Mr Powell's views.
Ali al-Dabbagh, the government spokesman, issued a statement saying the leaders had agreed that there was "no need to grant immunity to trainers," rather ambiguous phrasing for a deal-breaking demand.
