Emma tells them that I am simply "under the weather," an ominous phrase, whose origin is no doubt nautical.

And what did that ominous phrase "getting kind of serious" mean?

The use of the ominous phrase "infested with racism" does an injustice to those minorities whose plight it was intended to alleviate.

Kuei Jen bowed, conscious of how ominous that last phrase sounded, then raised his eyes, watching his father turn and leave the room.

Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it?

What remains is "structural readjustment," the most ominous phrase in the third world now.

And why that ominous phrase "we'll need"?

You wouldn't hurt a fly" - that ominous phrase which had been said about him too often.

I believe in the ominous phrase "Persian Coffee" was current even in England.

He characterizes this new medium of duplication with the ominous phrase, 'light getting under harness as a slave for man.'