Sentence examples for the phrase's origin from inspiring English sources

As Condi's figure of speech raced around the world, an editor of La Repubblica in Italy queried Tom Brady of the Times News Service about the phrase's origin.

(Etymologists disagree on the phrase's origin, but one explanation hearkens to 19th-century England, where committed drivers of horse-drawn buses were said to spent their time off riding the same buses to make sure the relief drivers were treating the vehicles and horses with care).

And as Mental Floss pointed out in 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary also noted the phrase's origins in horse racing.

The LGBTQ activist side of me understands the phrase's homophobic origins and its offensiveness.

The undisclosed place of a phrase's origin.

Structural constraints describe the text's two-dimensional phrase layout (e.g., the phrase's position in a text line).

Now, without a perfect awareness of the phrase and its origins and how Romney's campaign team originally deployed it, could one make all sorts of dark inferences?

Merton was a lover of language and embarked on projects to analyze words and their origins, from a historical and sociological perspective, the best known being the aphorism "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". Merton's journey to discover the phrases' origins led to the publication of On the Shoulders of Giants: a Shandean Postscript in 1965.

No, we come back to the OED's contention that the phrase is of much more recent origin than the mid-18th century of Mrs Glasse's book.

Some trace the origins of the phrase to Bernard London's 1932 pamphlet "Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence".

His essays were published in a series titled This View of Life (a phrase from the concluding paragraph of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species) starting from January 1974 and ended in January 2001, amounting to a continuous publication of 300 essays.