"I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary".
All too often, books written about Irish-Americans are greeted with the phrase "Just in time for St . Patricks Day!" Rutgers University Press has broken with this quaint tradition by publishing "The Irish in New Jersey: Four Centuries of American Life" ($26.95) in the summer, when it is most decidedly not in time for St. Patrick's Day.
The Swan at Little Totham, Essex - Camra's pub of the year You might think, if you heard someone use the phrase "pubs in time", that they were planning how to get round a nice bunch of hostelries before the distressing sound of the last orders bell being rung.
When, in the same essay, she arrives at the phrase "in real time," she knows to ask "whatever that is".
Perhaps the weightiest phrase in "The Time Machine," the most disclosive of Wells's ambition and method, is the innocuous-looking "even now".
The Supreme Court issued several landmark decisions last week, and with them came a few memorable phrases that may in time join the legal lexicon: From Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion that offered constitutional liberty to gay men and lesbians by overturning a Texas sodomy law.
To use the well-worn phrase, a journey back in time.
When he said, "Tell me what you feel like doin', y'all," they shouted, "Feel like movin' that body!" They picked up Parliament's chant "Do That Stuff" and sang "doo-wah, doo-wah" to Duke Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing (if It Ain't Got That Swing)." As that span suggests, a go-go set is African-American music that, in Kurt Vonnegut's phrase, has come "unstuck in time".
An internal memo from Mark Hamilton, the firm's managing director of the Olympics contract, raised issues over its "just-in-time contract phrasing" in June.
Each chapter, to use your phrasing, is a "snapshot in time" in the life of one family.
