Until then, major Bible translations in English had taken an approach now known as "formal equivalence," striving to maintain the sentence structure, phrasing, and idioms of the original Hebrew and Greek.
Some language detectives maintain that the phrase "will it play in Peoria" originated in vaudeville.
I maintain that the phrase, 'a long poem,' is simply a flat contradiction in terms".
He maintained the slang phrase had a range of meanings about encounters with girls and did not equal sexual intercourse.
Mr. Santana can shred as well as any speed-crazed guitarist alive, but unlike most of them he maintains the vocalistic phrasing and keening sense of meditation he draws from jazz in general and Coltrane in particular.
If we wish to be a truly inclusive country, we must embrace the diversity of faiths, delete the phrase and try to maintain the separation of state and religion.
Of course "maintain the traditional teachings" is a capacious phrase, and of course pontifical approval ratings should be taken with a grain of salt.
One NGO representative phrased it as "her innate confidence to seek solutions, rather than maintain the status quo".
To maintain the strain's flavor and unique heady effects, Green Dot Labs doesn't "cross the streams," to borrow a phrase from Ghostbusters.
Even in its dying throes, GMTV manfully maintained the tradition: "Complete the following phrase: Come rain or a) shine b) twinkle or c) glow".
In conversation, she uses phrases like "maintaining the momentum of the process," "exciting new challenges" and "skills sets" without so much as blinking an eye.
