Of Churchill's father, Randolph, he writes, "He had the gift of insolence, which can be defined as the ability to think up memorably amusing phrases and the nerve to deliver them without fear".
18. Speed bumps are called "sleeping policeman": Belizeans have lots of amusing Creole phrases.
Strikingly pretty, brightly outfitted in Prada, her face smooth in what she freely admits was a lift, and an amusing turn of phrase.
These "mems", as the team call them, are particularly effective if they tickle the funny bone as well as the synapses – and so for each fact that you want to learn, you are encouraged to find an amusing image or phrase that helps plant the memory in your mind.
Mitt Romney launched a memorable meme when he said he had "binders of women," but his amusing turn of phrase shined a light on a horrible answer and a big problem.
Or in another stab at celebrating IDOL properly, you may be advised to write something like this here, a collection of amusing turns of phrase that tickle the feet of wisdom, but really don't mean much and do BLISSFULLY ABSOLUTELY UNEQUIVOCALLY STUPENDOUSLY NOTHING!
This definition — of the sort of person who was the subject of Saturday's Crime Scene column — appeared in The New York Times in 1946, in an amusing list of phrases used by police officers of the day.
The effect is amusing, yet ominous, because the phrases keep ending on unexpected harmonies.
HuffPost TV's Maureen Ryan took a look at several episodes of "Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23" (9:30 p.m. ET on ABC), and used phrases like "moderately amusing" and saying creator Nanatchka Khan "gets a reasonable amount of comedy" out of the premise in her review.
Davis likes playing logical, amusing, and estranging games with familiar phrases.
