"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

phrase sustantivo

sustantivo + phrase
Kolokacji: 21
catch phrase • noun phrase • code phrase • stock phrase • opening phrase • ...
phrase + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 6
phrase book • phrase meaning • phrase structure • phrase length • phrase structure grammar • ...
phrase + verbo
Kolokacji: 53
phrase refers • phrase means • phrase comes • phrase appears • phrase describes • ...
verbo + phrase
Kolokacji: 27
use around phrases • contain phrases • repeat the phrase • use the phrase • hear the phrase • ...
adjetivo + phrase
Kolokacji: 175
short phrase • famous phrase • common phrase • Latin phrase • musical phrase • key phrase • single phrase • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 50
(4) Latin, Italian
Kolokacji: 2
(5) musical, melodic, lyrical
Kolokacji: 3
(6) key, traditional
Kolokacji: 2
(9) simple, catchy, awkward
Kolokacji: 3
(15) French, Spanish, Japanese
Kolokacji: 3
(17) English, American
Kolokacji: 2
(18) useful, operative
Kolokacji: 2
(19) descriptive, participial
Kolokacji: 2
(24) brief, terse, redundant
Kolokacji: 3
(28) apt, clever
Kolokacji: 2
1. apt phrase = apt zwrot apt phrase
  • This is an apt phrase for the government as a whole.
  • He gropes for the apt phrase; it is considered bad form here to use words like 'hellish'.
  • Carpet beetles might have been a more apt phrase.
  • They've moved so far to the Right that they are singlehandedly making "fascist" a legitimate and apt phrase again.
  • A particularly apt phrase has been coined for them - "school phobic".
  • "An apt phrase, admiral, for in a sense that's exactly what you did, isn't it?"
  • He has a knack for coming up with apt phrases that accomplish a lot with just a few words.
  • Poppy for corruption and terrorism would be the more apt phrase.
  • "Have a nice day" was the apt phrase for those who serve people they do not know to end a transaction.
  • A more apt phrase for investors might be "caveat emptor."
2. clever phrase = pomysłowy zwrot clever phrase
(29) cryptic, arcane
Kolokacji: 2
(30) Greek, Gaelic
Kolokacji: 2
(32) colloquial, conversational
Kolokacji: 2
(34) German, Yiddish
Kolokacji: 2
(36) adverbial, adjectival
Kolokacji: 2
(39) lovely, beautiful
Kolokacji: 2
(40) magic, wonderful, lofty
Kolokacji: 3
(41) Hebrew, ominous, unfortunate
Kolokacji: 3
(42) two-word, four-bar
Kolokacji: 2
(44) well-turned, felicitous
Kolokacji: 2
(45) formal, nominal, titular
Kolokacji: 3
(46) immortal, inspirational
Kolokacji: 2
(47) evocative, resonant
Kolokacji: 2
(48) obscene, innocuous
Kolokacji: 2
(49) derogatory, pejorative
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + phrase
Kolokacji: 13
around phrases • in phrases • on phrase • by Phrase • that phrase • ...

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