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词汇 example_english_telling-phrase
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telling phrase

collocation in English

meanings of tellingand phrase


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telling
adjective
uk /ˈtel.ɪŋ/ us /ˈtel.ɪŋ/
showing the truth about a situation or showing what someone ...
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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 telling phrase


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In the course of the journey she distils a vast amount of literature, much of it in political theory, with commendable succinctness and an eye for a tellingphrase.
Then in a particularly tellingphrase it states: "it is seen by them as coming home".
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I thought that was a very tellingphrase.
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That is the crux of the whole matter in a very tellingphrase.
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To use the chairman's tellingphrase, grant aid for planting woodlands and farmland should be targeted to take forestry off the hill.
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Using a tellingphrase, he said that it was the small, nasty contracts that could be swept under the table.
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That is a very tellingphrase and a very true one.
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He captured the mood very accurately in one tellingphrase when he talked about the need for the criminal justice system to be "reunited with its public".
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That is the tellingphrase.
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That was a tellingphrase.
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That is a tellingphrase.
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It struck me as one of the most telling phrases that has been used this evening.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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