"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Third, if you'll excuse the hackneyed phrase, what I'm after is the human interest angle.
- Neither the hackneyed phrase nor the university accent disguised his concern.
- Aside from the hackneyed phrases, the lady was right about the rumors.
- It's a hackneyed phrase, but he has a mind like a steel trap.
- Truth is stranger than fiction - a hackneyed phrase down the years, but it was true.
- To use the hackneyed phrase, here he found himself.
- The effect, to use a hackneyed but convenient phrase, can better be imagined than described.
- "We use hackneyed phrases to say monumental things," John explains.
- That is a hackneyed phrase, but I really mean it.
- Never once does he use the hackneyed phrase "vintage of the century," not even for 1961, which is often called just that.
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