"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One well-worn phrase is "with all due respect."
- "As you please," she said, employing one of her well-worn phrases.
- Other well-worn phrases have also lost their innocence.
- This isn't a genre narrative where well-worn phrases become a stylistic choice; the sentences instead seem slack and loose.
- Illegal search and seizure" is a well-worn phrase in the lexicon of any criminal defense lawyer.
- A fussy mess, style over substance or a whole host of other well-worn phrases that would fit.
- They demand the right sound at the right moment, even if it's a well-worn phrase.
- Letter writers, to use a well-worn phrase, are entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.
- We are, I suppose, as members of the committee, and to use that well-worn phrase which I do not like, 'close to the citizen'.
- At some point over the years, the well-worn phrase had come to feel more like a sinister threat than a romantic promise.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.