"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The other hypothesis often mentioned is that the phrase might allude to gambling, where some players make a big deal out of "throwing the bones" while others just quietly go about their business of losing money.
- To judge by recent annual reports, the phrase alludes almost exclusively to African, Asian, American Indian and especially Hispanic countries and cultures.
- When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about "Cynara", the phrase "gone with the wind" alludes to erotic loss.
- The phrase alludes to a judgment for eternal rewards in 2 Corinthians 1:14 where it says "we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus".
- The phrase alludes to the days in the early 1900's when Cornelius Vanderbilt first created the branch in Pennsylvania Station, before its move closer to Grand Central Terminal in 1931.
- The phrase may allude to John Dryden's poem "Annus Mirabilis" about the events of 1666.
- The phrase "little eyases" in the First Folio (F1) may allude to the Children of the Chapel, whose popularity in London forced the Globe company into provincial touring.
- Some sources (e.g. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms) say that the phrase probably originally alluded to soldiers who died on active duty.
- That last phrase alludes to a danger that by any rational calculation deserves top billing on Americans' lists of fears.
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