Sentence examples for traditional phrase from inspiring English sources

In the past, buffs would often say goodbye with a traditional phrase: "I'll see you at the big one".

"Los Madriles" ("the Madrids") is a traditional phrase that acknowledges the fact that each barrio (quarter) has developed its own style.

At 10.22am on Sunday, Nasa tweeted a picture of the launch of the rocket with the traditional phrase: "We have liftoff".

The traditional phrase for the fruit over-ripening and losing its crisp taste is unlikely to be bandied around until mid or late August, if first reports from the mass exercise prove to be a consistent pattern.

The real evidence, and all of us know it, is that the way children get set up for life is by having balance, variety and stimulus in their lives and in their education – well-rounded to use a very traditional phrase.

I can no longer understand the menus: the dishes named in the traditional phrase or the modern common saying, such as "Touch Hands, Through Black Hair", which is the title of a popular song but also seaweed cooked with pig's trotter.

Even the traditional phrases — "I'm going to step out; you undress to your comfort level" — imply a problem, that a wrong move could make things uncomfortable.

One of them offers to teach you how to say "I hate your sausage toes" in Danish, but others offer more traditional phrases.

Instead of the traditional phrasing, fraught with followed by an object (something usually unpleasant or unfortunate), the object could appear before fraught in a hyphenated compound, such as danger-fraught, pain-fraught or war-fraught.

Professional bards, who may be both praise singers to a chief and court historians of their tribe, chant praise songs such as these of the great Zulu chieftain Shaka: Although he is expected to know all of the traditional phrases handed down by word of mouth in his tribe, the bard is also free to make additions to existing poems.

The idea that food is an "art form" in itself is a much stronger claim than traditional phrasing such as "the art of cookery" (on the model of the French l'art de …), a more modest attribution of creativity and craft (techné rather than poésis) to quotidian activity.