Sentence examples for phrase are from inspiring English sources
The implications of this phrase are not immediately obvious.
Her recent plays, he says, borrowing the critic Edward Said's phrase, are classic "late style".
Skilled poker players, to use David Sklansky's memorable phrase, are "at war with luck".
"Animals," to quote Lévi-Strauss's famous phrase, "are good to think with".
(The scare quotes, the italics, and the interpolated qualifying phrase are all his).
"Acclaimed" is perhaps wishful thinking, but the most dubious words in that puffy phrase are "documentary film".
He shows that affection, observation and a brilliant turn of phrase are comedy tools as effective as the bludgeoning putdown.
Such famous turns of phrase are the gurus' equivalent of brands: they burnish their reputations for original thinking and ensure that they stand out in a crowd.
Accordingly, word classes such as adjective and preposition, which presuppose the existence of the noun phrase and prepositional phrase, are of equally doubtful validity.
He will continue to appoint bishops who share his vision and who, in his famous phrase, are shepherds who "smell of their sheep".
Their turns of phrase are so savoursome they almost precipitate into poetry itself.From beginning to end, the two poets needed each other.
