Sentence examples for an old phrase from inspiring English sources

Those who write it's an old phrase.

Others say it refers to an old phrase meaning "they who cannot be dislodged".

Indeed, "turnings of the sun" is an old phrase, used by both Hesiod and Homer.

For people who remember the McEnroe of the early 1980s, this is a new turn on an old phrase.

In this way of living, to borrow an old phrase, we are not defined by what we ask of life.

"It's an old phrase, I know, but when he got up, you could hear a pin drop".

Brewer asserts, " 'First catch your hare,' is a very old phrase... .. then it points to a passage in "the 13th century Bracton".

'Star quality is a hoary old phrase, but Naomie has it to spare,' says Danny Boyle.

You know that my favorite words to you, as I point my finger at you, are "LISTEN TO ME" This is a very old phrase.

Losing yourself in a book, the old phrase, is not an idle fantasy but an addictive, model reality.

It's an extension of the old phrase, "how you do anything is how you do everything" -- in this case, weddings are the "anything" and marriage/relationship is the "everything".