Sentence examples for native phrase from inspiring English sources

The other thing is coldness or, to use a native phrase, a scopa in culo – a stick up the backside.

The strategy is well served by the easygoing wait staff; the sommelier, Guy Goldstein, sent over a flight of dessert wines, and the Scottish waitress, Fiona Pryde, explained that the chocolate-banana tart was so good because the dessert chef was a "chocolate anorak" — a native phrase meaning choco-geek.

The name "Virginia" may have been suggested then by Raleigh or Elizabeth, perhaps noting her status as the "Virgin Queen," and may also be related to a native phrase, "Wingandacoa," or name, "Wingina".

And the strains of Russian folk melody, both here and in the next movement, had native phrasing.

"Te echo de menos" is a native Spanish phrase used to convey the feeling of missing someone.

In his great Springfield speech of 1854, Lincoln asserted that he would prefer to send the slaves, if freed, "to Liberia -- to their own native land" (a phrase he used even though some blacks' ancestors had been in North America longer than his own).

For anyone who's attended a conference on online media or advertising, or read any of the industry trades over the last six months, the phrase "native advertising" is all but inescapable.

The repeated taunts of "cheep cheep" throughout the movie is apparently a turn of phrase native to Poland, according to Polish students Harper worked with in his research.

The phrase "native-born citizen" could easily have been used if anything else was intended.

Natives use the phrase "Double the hump, smaller the pump".

And why was he always, in his haunting phrase, "a native of nowhere"?