"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Cliché" came to mean such a ready-made phrase.
- You can also blast "family alerts" to the screens of all of your family's phones at once; a menu offers ready-made phrases like "Running late.
- Imitation, repetition and plugging in ready-made phrases are, after all, the methods by which humans learn speech.
- Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them.
- Euphemism, vagueness or any kind of lazy, unthinking use of ready-made phrases covers up meaning, often brutal political truths.
- A phrase book is a collection of ready-made phrases, usually for a foreign language along with a translation, indexed and often in the form of questions and answers.
- Every newspaper has ready-made phrases to explain such manifestations away.
- You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in.
- But there were plenty of ready-made phrases around.
- Examining ready-made phrases referring to women, or in some cases men, Mills cites, for example, some familiar proverbs.
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