Sentence examples for knowing the phrase from inspiring English sources
No one would actually go on trial, but the indictees would see their travel options humiliatingly curtailed and go to their graves knowing the phrase "charged with war crimes" will be next to their names in the history books.
Without even knowing the phrase "harm reduction" at first, Brason had adopted its approach to drug addiction.
My native attendant and I communicated in very basic French; not knowing the phrase for "going commando," I kept my bathing suit on.
Knowing the phrase, you could talk your way up the staff until you had identified the correct note to hit.
Not knowing the Spanish phrase for "helicopter rescue," I swallowed my pride and slowly crab-walked all the way down, to the delight of the many other visitors who now possess a priceless photo of the terrified would-be adventurer.
Translator Barbara Harshav has let the wording stand, which to a Hebrew speaker can be maddening, knowing the meaning of the phrase and how it won't necessarily be understood by a non-Hebrew speaker.
It uses with a knowing wink the phrase "coming out," which connotes declaring one's gay or lesbian sexual identity.
Even today, for example, when fishermen go out to catch fish, they metaphorically say that they're bringing their "bait and tackle," perhaps without even knowing where the phrase came from.
We've been all hot and bothered about the prospect of truly knowing the unknowable, to borrow a phrase from Donald Rumsfeld.
However, knowing the strict definition of a word or the literal meaning of a phrase only goes so far.
