Turns of phrase such as "visual poetry" are sometimes synonymous with "boring" or "plot-less".
Of course, a writer can't resist a careless-seeming phrase such as "nothing had happened," current in our everyday lives.
A phrase such as "off piste" tells us how Harry spends his hols [see footnote], but is coarsely unHoratian.
So a phrase such as "hot dog" would be understood in relation to mustard and baseball games, not overheated canines.
In a character phrase, such as "E.T. Phone Home," it is the inseparable association between the words and the fictional personality.
Subject contact relatives always involve a noun (such as man in sentence (1)) immediately followed by another phrase (such as wants to see you) that describes the noun.
A chip on the device uses the device's microphones to listen out for a wakeword or phrase such as "Alexa" or "hey, Google".
Just as someone else is putting forth an idea, use a contradictory word or phrase, such as "but," "no", or "I disagree". to interject.
A well executed phrase such as 'Murray devrait jouer avec plus de patience, comme Nadal'Murrayray should play more patiently, like Nadal') may elicit a grunt of approval.
It is a relationship that has remained amicable," Garner says, instinctively dodging the familiarity of a less cumbersome phrase such as: "We're still friends".
While such a colloquial phrase, such as this, is deeply embedded into our global society, is it possible to veer away from such a narrow-sighted mentality?
