Sentence examples for comic phrase from inspiring English sources

In Burt's more artfully comic phrase, "she is a U-boat beneath us all".

No prizes for the novelty of his insights, but he certainly turns a neat comic phrase, including one about the modern necessity to be "up and dressed at 3am with seven browser windows open" if you want to actually achieve/buy/organise anything, and another about the housing crisis.

Ms. Roiphe, unmarried herself, prefers "the older, more comic phrases: consort and paramour".

They're delivered in increasingly tipsy style by the bibulous Irishman, who maximises the effect of his fine comic phrases (a nap-taker snoring sounds "like two bananas thrown into the Hadron collider") by seeming to hiccup them randomly into being.

For what makes Wodehouse Wodehouse isn't the Edwardian setting, the dim-toff and-clever-butler set-up or the chaotic plots: it's his sublime comic style, phrase by phrase andim-toff and-clever-butler

They make comics, phrases ("Friends With Benefits," "He's Just Not That Into You") or holidays ("New Year's Eve," "Valentine's Day") and attach scripts that are often dreadful.

He also has a sharp comic turn of phrase.

(It was then that my actual father taught me the phrase "comic relief").

COMIC Dean Obeidallah SECRET PHRASE "I ate his liver with some Kefauver beans and a nice Chianti".

Here's what happened, in order of the comics' appearances that night, scored on a 1-to-10 scale: COMIC Jamie Kilstein SECRET PHRASE "Thank you, Mr. Gingrich, for all you've done for America".

I came of age in the '80s and '90s and can still recall when Xavier's students were lords of the Underground, and the phrase "comic book movie" conjured absurd images of David Hasselhoff donning an eye patch.