Sentence examples for funny phrase from inspiring English sources

It was a funny phrase, no doubt about it.

("Welsh terrorist". A funny phrase, like "Mongolian pastry chef" or "Spanish engineer").

I have a sneaking suspicion that the fine, funny phrase "catching" dementia comes from one of my reviewers.

His "antenna" was up — it's a funny phrase, suggesting that we should be impressed that he even noticed it.

Then, day by day, things, and satire about those things, got more dystopian — "Pussy Grabber in Chief" is a funny phrase, but not a particularly funny reality.

When I told my friend Joan about my plan to act a little more divorced, she said, "Aren't you just wanting him to man up?" "Man up" is a funny phrase, given the context, because what she means in part is: Don't I want him to be more like a wife and mother?

And it's all GOOD here, although the theme entries are very funny phrases with all of the GOOD sucked out of them.

Jones grinned and said, "Did someone tell you this was Shakespeare?" Like many standups, Jones generates most of her material in performance, discovering funny phrases and gestures onstage.

It has wonderfully funny phrases, but from time to time, even though the Oxford establishment is scarcely revered, the chortle of the high table rings out.

Only the occasional sequence feels less fresh: a malfunctioning Skype call to a doddery dad; a stock routine on funny phrases in a phrasebook.

So despite the funny phrasing, at the heart of the idea of leading from behind is the empowerment of other actors to do your bidding or, as in the case of Libya, to be used as cover for a policy that would be suspect in the eyes of other nations if it's branded as a purely American operation.