Sentence examples for this phrase really from inspiring English sources

What this phrase really meant, supporters of the lawsuit argued, was that tax credits for buying insurance should only be available in those states where officials had decided to operate their own health insurance exchange marketplaces, rather than leaving that administrative work to the federal government.

Thus, to say that "natural selection is adaptation of organisms to their environment through survival of the fittest" sounds like it means something, but all this phrase really says is that increased offspring are increased offspring are increased offspring.

What that phrase really means is this: the bank owns too much debt from euro-zone countries like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, but, rather than sell it off, the bank waits for the loan period of the debt to come to an end, and then doesn't buy any more of it.

I asked Campinchi what that phrase really meant to him.

Rio Ferdinand responded to Sir Alex Ferguson's comments about the number of 'world class' players he has managed by sparking a semantic debate about what the phrase really means.

"And that phrase really took on a life of its own; it gets used in a political context, about ideas and products, and in every field it's applicable – all from Fonzie!

Within this context, I predict new differences between verbal and numerical probability assessments, as follows: first, individuals will justify an optimistic verbal assessment (e.g., somewhat possible) by retaining the option of re-defining it, in case of negative outcomes, as though the phrase really means something different, and, for that matter, means more things.

What, though, does that phrase really mean?

And of course there was always the other side, the fact that our friendship really wasn't a courting, was really disinterested (Bad phrase) really led to no encroachments.

That phrase really stuck, because it was an example of a critic perfectly summing up what a dramatist was trying to do.

The phrase "really reveals what he thinks about our country, about our people, about free enterprise, about freedom, about individual initiative, about America," Mr. Romney told supporters at a town-hall-style event here.