Sentence examples for misused phrase from inspiring English sources

It is time to reclaim this misused phrase.

Chris Dixon, an investor at Andreessen Horowitz and a former cofounder and CEO of Hunch, notes: "The Innovator's Dilemma" popularized the (often misused) phrase "disruptive technology," but there's a lot more than that one big idea.

And why argue at all with a misused phrase?

In the long run, misusing phrases like "begging the question" doesn't make you sound smarter.

Last year a frustrated senior translator at the European court of auditors compiled a 33-page document on commonly misused English phrases in EU publications ("to precise" meaning "to summarise" for example, or "actors" to mean "people or organisations involved in doing something" rather than "performer on a stage").

In the new translation by David Edgar, the alien word "trolls" has been perhaps wisely eliminated, but I wish Mr. Edgar hadn't made the familiar mistake of misusing the phrase "begging the question," which is jarring in this high-culture context.

She created a game using a character named Blundering Ben, in which readers scored points by finding misused words and phrases.

6. Create a game or activity that helps young students learn the correct uses of commonly misused words and phrases.

But misused as it is, the phrase is still perfect: new technologies do indeed destroy as well as create.

The multinationals have already stolen, misused and redefined words and phrases like natural, sustainable, organic, family farm and humanely-raised.

Belated attempts by the government to call it the "abolition of the spare room subsidy" should be treated with the contempt they deserve beef wellington Beeton, Mrs (Isabella Mary Beeton, 1836-65) authof of The Book of Household Management begs the question This phrase is almost invariably misused: it means assuming a proposition that, in reality, involves the conclusion.