She didn't know much about the terminology of these things, but the phrase 'armoured personnel carrier' popped into her head.

Farley further observes: the phrase also pops up in The Beatles' 1967 song "With a Little Help from My Friends".

Returning from a walk one Saturday night, Service heard the sounds of revelry from a saloon, and the phrase "A bunch of the boys were whooping it up" popped into his head.

Back when I was in middle school, it seems like I used the phrase "pop a boner" at least two or three times daily.

But when the phrase "black grass" popped into his mind, he was unable to turn the feelings it generated into a poem and wrote a short story instead.

She could not believe such an entirely childish phrase had popped out of her mouth.

A phrase from a long-ago television news report pops into my mind: "Night," the correspondent declared, "belongs to the Vietcong."

For some reason the phrase "Midnight Eclipse" popped into my head.

Even so, striking phrases and ideas popped out of the music.

The phrase, "Quit while you're winning," popped unbidden into Miles's mind whenever this subject came up; the proposal secretly appalled him.