(A colleague recalls that one Communist-era Polish language activist took particular exception to the phrase "whiskey on the rocks").
A defense contractor who is regarded as one of America's most knowledgeable experts on Chinese military and cyber capabilities took exception to the phrase "cyber war".
However, I take exception to the phrase: "They took over the land, stripping it of sandalwood to grow sugar cane". Sandalwood was to Hawaii what gold and silver were to California and Nevada.
In the gap between this posting and the last, I've seen some exceptions to this phrase that I'd like to share.
I take exception to the use of the phrase "nuisance wildlife" in describing canine predators.
If the phrase size were restricted to 5 words, then the phrase parser would only need to create a phrase array of size 5 × 100 or 500.
In free exceptives, the exceptive phrase is a clause-peripheral clausal modifier expressing an exception to the generalization stated in the main clause (Except (for) the crossword puzzles, the New York Times subscription includes daily access to all online content).
To adapt a phrase, primaries have consequences.
To coin a phrase, time will tell.
Learn to "turn" a phrase.
