Sentence examples for humorous phrase from inspiring English sources

To the Editor: The ostensibly humorous phrase "senior moment" contributes to the "epidemic of anxiety around memory loss" that is cited in Margaret Morganroth Gullette's Op-Ed article.

Mr. Farmer's concept is to add a "B" to certain words in popular phrases to create a different, humorous phrase, and, fortunately for us, they all work.

It is full of brusque, slightly surprising judgments: 'Saddam Hussein is a thief and an apostate.' It can sometimes turn a neat, almost humorous phrase.

"To see her bustling around the kitchen in an apron bearing the humorous phrase 'Don't Holler at the Cook — That's the Boss's Job!,'. . . it was hard to believe that just days ago she'd been leading a doctoral seminar on the altogether unusual circumstances surrounding Balzac's corrections to the proofs of Béatrix," he observes.

"To see her bustling around the kitchen in an apron bearing the humorous phrase 'Don't Holler at the Cook That's the Boss's Job!,'. . . it was hard to believe that just days ago she'd been leading a doctoral seminar on the altogether unusual circumstances surrounding Balzac's corrections to the proofs of Béatrix," he observes.

In the past we would use the phrase 'jolly hockey sticks' – a humorous phrase used to describe upper-class school girls' annoying enthusiasm.

Are humorous phrases a hallmark of yours?

Her billboards tend to feature philosophical quotes or humorous phrases.

Then I wracked my brain to come up with viable (and, hopefully, humorous) phrases for the long answers, which, of course, would need to be symmetrically laid out.

This soon became known as 'Caturday', with humorous phrases posted beside the so-called 'LOLcats' - now the subject of LOLcat T-shirts, buttons and fridge magnets.

Check out the second paragraph), we have a puzzle by Josh Knapp where the consonant blend "PL" has decided to visit with some familiar phrases in order to make (wait for it … ) new and humorous phrases.