Sentence examples for classic phrase from inspiring English sources

'Go west, young man,' was a classic phrase.

We see a "hidden-hand leader," to use Greenstein's classic phrase.

"You need a shared sense of saying 'Yes.' The classic phrase is: 'Yes.

Those who pursue complaints are simply branded humourless and told so in replies from the public broadcaster which tend, in my experience, to begin with the classic phrase: "We are sorry if you were offended".

Politics is still, in the classic phrase, about who gets what, and in the final analysis, class interests played a critical role in who got what in the policy conflicts of the past four years.

Mrs. Jellyby, you may recall, is the Dickens character in "Bleak House" who is as intent on improving humanity as she is cavalier toward actual human beings; thus she heartlessly neglects her own family while high-mindedly pursuing charity abroad — "telescopic philanthropy," in Dickens' classic phrase.

The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 was so stuffed with giveaways for both Republicans and Democrats that it inspired such classic phrases as "Gucci Gulch" and "Christmas-tree legislation".None of this should automatically damn either Mr Kerry or gridlock.

The next day, the government says, he left a voice mail for an indebted, suddenly elusive gambler, saying classic phrases like, "I know where you live," and "It's out of my hands" and "Someone will knock on your door, I guess, or whatever".

Philip Howells emails to say: "Hope you've been going through your copies of 'Colemanballs' for those classic phrases... .. Philip, I'm a bit too young to be a Private Eye reader, but being a good Northerner I am partial to Uncle Joe's Mint Balls if that's close enough for you?

"It was a classic Ed Tufte phrase — jaws dropped.

Not every store has them, Mr. Rosenfeld said, adding a twist on a classic Haggadah phrase.