But he had a very pretty turn of the phrase.

The form of the phrase may need to be changed.

In the true sense of the phrase, Death took her.

Having one is still important, it seems, but not in the old sense of the phrase.

Still worth having, in any old sense of the phrase.

I asked him who was the source of the phrase.

These can be found at the level of particular phrases.

It had just been a turn of phrase, she told herself.

If these words are changed, the meaning of the phrase will be lost.

Some of the old phrases were still up at the time and written over with the news.