Sentence examples for fancy phrases from inspiring English sources

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And you'll find no fancy phrases about the dishes.

The pose of seeing through other people's fancy phrases was part of this persona.

Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

Alec, quoted most frequently as an England bowler and as a Test selector, never went in for fancy phrases.

"When I decided to go, I said to the chairman he should be very careful about bringing somebody in from outside the club, because there is a very capable staff inside who, over a 14-year period, have laid down a system and pattern of playing which some Fancy Dan might come along and break up with fancy phrases.

Be tough on your fancy phrases.

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That is just a fancy phrase for ordinary white flour.

Of course, fancy phrasing can be a distraction as well, and Powers occasionally stumbles.... ..... Percy himself stumbles more than occasionally.

So he used a fancy phrase to convey his idea—"benign neglect". Result: the opposite of what he intend ed: more controversy over race relations than before.

That is an orc-chieftain in the mines of Moria; notice how Tolkien shrugs off the fancy phrasing and whacks us hard with Germanic monosyllables.

In the meantime, a few examples show the kind of things that might be possible.Many interesting possibilities are opened up by "user-generated location-specific content"—a fancy phrase for digital wireless graffiti.

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