"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
(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
1. well-turned phrase = zgrabne wyrażenie well-turned phrase
  • Emily was helpless before the charm of a well-turned phrase.
  • It features some well-turned phrases, and it is considerately brief.
  • Hitting on a well-turned phrase, he preens with self-satisfaction.
  • The warmth of his voice, the well-turned phrases made up the face I saw first.
  • The play features some well-turned phrases, but its four characters never assume much life beyond their emblematic status as figures in a well-worn social debate.
  • Mr. Roos has a screwball director's sense of timing and a writer's love for the well-turned phrase.
  • With a gift for the well-turned phrase, he made economics clear and even fascinating.
  • In any case, Herm's now an outstanding analyst, and he's always good for some inspirational talk and a few well-turned phrases.
  • Although he knew that the emotions she expressed came from her heart, her fondness for the well-turned phrase somehow intruded between them.
  • A well-turned phrase can give birth to dozens of offspring.
(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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