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famous phrase

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famous
adjective
uk /ˈfeɪ.məs/ us /ˈfeɪ.məs/
known and recognized by ...
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phrase
noun[C]
uk /freɪz/ us /freɪz/
language
a group of words that is part of, rather than the whole of, ...
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Examples of famous phrase


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He found the high water mark of patriotism in the first year of the war, with the ranks filled by, in a now famousphrase, the rage militaire.
Indeed, he used a famousphrase, saying that we would recognise such behaviour as the elephant on the doorstep.
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In one sense, to use a famousphrase, it is only the end of the beginning.
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In a famousphrase, it kept all the options open.
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For he knows that there is no alternative, to coin a famousphrase.
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To quote a famousphrase, he should try harder.
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Is that the kind of progress which was envisaged in that famousphrase "at a stroke"?
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I use the word "inquest" in the sense of that famousphrase, and not, of course, in the medical or forensic sense.
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We must "unbundle the events"—to use the famousphrase.
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He even seemed to paraphrase a famousphrase, suggesting that they needed months, not weeks, to do it.
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We look forward to his reconciling that with his only famousphrase so far.
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To use a famousphrase, enough is enough.
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So whether "and" in the famousphrase is conjunctive or disjunctive does not matter in this context.
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Every family in the country pays £1,000 a year towards the cost of unemployment—and that, to coin a famousphrase, is not a price worth paying.
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To adapt a famousphrase, he made "the mostest of the leastest", and he did it extremely well.
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There was another famousphrase relating to the jury.
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I will even accept the famousphrase about the unacceptable face of capitalism; there are capitalist practices that are unacceptable and need to be prevented.
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It is, to quote that famousphrase, the wrong financial climate in which to encourage safety.
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To coin a famousphrase, it is now time to do.
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The truth is that never again will companies be able to mint money or, to use that famousphrase, "print money".
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