Sentence examples for stock expression from inspiring English sources
I became dispirited as I noticed that Ishiguro almost never chose a formulation or phrase that could be called his own when a stock expression would do.
It has become a stock expression in serious French conversation, in editorials, in essays, & in Parliamentary speeches, & it is frequently used in sermons from the pulpit to mean the Christian's sufferings here below.
Comedians are often defined by one stock expression, from Jack Benny's sighing "...well!" to Homer Simpson's "Doh!" For Judy Carne, who has died aged 76, the phrase was "sock it to me" and every time she uttered it, or anything close to it, on America's hit comedy sketch show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, she would be doused in water, disappear down a trap door, or worse.
Verdurin, who loved nothing better than "to frolic in her billow of stock expressions".
However they aren't too important, the main point is that idioms and other stock expressions aren't peripheral language oddities – they are central to how we communicate.
The conventions of modern storytelling dictate that fictional characters react to their worlds in certain stock ways and that the storytellers use stock expressions to describe those reactions.
"The Chancellor is putting the finishing touches to his Budget". It's one of those stock expressions beloved of journalists who need to find 'a new top line' when there's really very little new to say until the day itself.
We crossed this line to both an actin5C Gal4 driver stock (ubiquitous expression, Bloomington #3954) and a vasa-driven Gal4 driver (male germline expression, gift of L Jones).
The phrase ouden mallon became a stock Pyrrhonist expression, and occurs several times in connection with Pyrrho's own views.
The progeny then express the UAS transgene of interest in the pattern determined by the GAL4 'driver' stock, permitting expression of genes in specific cell types at specific stages of development.
To shed light on the inheritance patterns of the genes differentially expressed between stocks gene expression additivity was studied.
