'notorious phrasing' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in the context of speech, writing, or even music to suggest that the wording is well-known, often infamous. For example, "The notorious phrasing of Shakespeare's 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy remains one of his most famous speeches."
In the course of time, though, these original meanings had been lost (through, in Müller's notorious phrasing, a "disease of language"), so that the myths no longer told in a "rationally intelligible" way of phenomena in the natural world but instead appeared to describe the "irrational" activities of gods, heroes, nymphs, and others.
The 1996 Democratic fund-raising scandals introduced the notorious phrase "soft money" into everyday political discourse.
And her private office files show that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, had expected the now notorious phrase to be made public.
He failed to protest their atrocities, even when Roman Jews were rounded up, in the now notorious phrase, under his very windows.
Finally, Ahmadinejad's own call for regime change in Israel - "the occupying Zionist regime of Jerusalem should cease to exist in the page of time" - has been mistranslated and distorted into the notorious phrase, "Israel should be wiped off the map" by the western media.
Or, rather, it is not new – it is the revival of an old strand of Tory isolationism, encapsulated by Neville Chamberlain's notorious phrase describing Hitler's threat to Czechoslovakia as being "a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing".
(Even if it's one that took decades to come to public life - it only got its posthumous premiere in 1839, thanks to the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, whose review coined the notorious phrase, "heavenly length", a tag that has stuck to this piece and to Schubert's late music in general).
The term 'private collector' is a notorious phrase, meaning 'Who knows where it came from?' " (The only proof behind the faun was a fraudulent bill of sale).
The cover jacket is that of a zipper, an obvious reprise of her startling first book Fear of Flying and its notorious phrase "Zipless Fuck".
There is a notorious and baffling phrase of Donne's, in "The Second Anniversary," when he is commemorating "the Religious death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury," who was, he says, "richly and largely hous'd": Her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought.
Among ordinary Argentines, Mr. Barrionuevo, a former official of the restaurant workers' union, is notorious for cynical phrases like "Nobody in Argentina gets rich by working," and "If we just stopped stealing for two years, this country could solve its problems".
