You can also give the number of words in the phrase.

The same word is also used in the phrase "the fat of the land."

His last sentence seemed to run together in a single phrase.

If anyone had asked her to describe Earth in a single phrase, until today she would probably have said it was a water world.

People wanted to know in a phrase whether our food was clean and safe.

Again there was something not quite right in the phrase or the tone.

Each of the characters, she said, can be described in a single phrase.

It is a question that can't be answered in a word or a phrase.

You have put in a single phrase what I must make a book of.

Though written in full phrases, they're chunks of sound more than anything else.