Resulting from its specific use in the book, the phrase " Catch-22 " is common idiomatic usage meaning " a no-win situation " or " a double bind " of any type.

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

The phrase " mad Arab ", sometimes with both words capitalized in Lovecraft's stories, is used so commonly before Alhazred's name that it almost constitutes a title.

The epigraph at the beginning of the poem is the phrase Vicisti, Galilaee, Latin for " You have conquered, O Galilean ", the apocryphal dying words of the Emperor Julian.

Some think that the " Pay Lay Ale " sentence is derived from the Hebrew phrase " pe le-El ", פה לאל ' mouth to God '.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

In the poem the prisoner is suffering " for the colour of his hair ", a natural, given attribute which, in a clearly coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as " nameless and abominable " ( recalling the legal phrase peccatum horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, " the horrible sin, not to be named amongst Christians ").

When, during his discourses, he recounts his experiences as a young aspirant, he regularly uses the phrase " When I was an unenlightened bodhisatta ..." The term therefore connotes a being who is " bound for enlightenment ", in other words, a person whose aim is to become fully enlightened.

The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase " Big Brother is watching you ", which is the core " truth " of the propaganda system in this state.

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

It was often referred to as " the material of 1000 uses ", a phrase originated by Baekeland himself.

They include a long line of TV advertisements in the 1990s featuring three frogs named " Bud ", " Weis ", and " Er ", the Budweiser Ants, and a campaign built around the phrase " Whassup?

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

One detail has been added to the inside of the collar: the phrase " Keep Pounding ", in honor of the late Panthers player and coach Sam Mills.

Libertarianism has been used in modern times as a substitute for the phrase " neo-classical liberalism ", leading to some confusion.

Many Indo-European languages, for example, obey " Wackernagel's Law ", which requires clitics to appear in " second position ", after the first syntactic phrase or the first stressed word in a clause:

The original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).

For example, in the phrase " a pride of lions ", pride is a collective noun.

The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an " I ", exists to do the thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the phrase in that it presupposes that there is an " I ", that there is such an activity as " thinking ", and that " I " know what " thinking " is.

The phrase Sons of Ben is a mildly problematic term applied to followers of Ben Jonson in English poetry and drama in the first half of the seventeenth century.

The phrase " fulfill all righteousness " is a problematic one.

The phrase has been used to mean giving actual or figurative support or aid to someone in a situation or project, i. e. to " watch their back ".

The other factor in situation aspect is duration, which is also a property of a verb phrase.

The phrase " Keystone cops defending " has become a favorite catchphrase for describing a situation in an English soccer match where a defensive error or a series of defensive errors leads to a goal.

They are constructed in a triadic manner which consists of a statement ( often a proverb ), an identification of a speaker ( person or animal ) and a phrase that places the statement into an unexpected situation.

The concept of this phrase is simple enough, as the actual substance striking the rotating blades of a fan would cause a messy and unpleasant situation ( much like being in the presence of a manure spreader ).

For practical purposes a lazzi may be any bit of business that may be easily recalled and performed in another situation, somewhat like a catch phrase.

The phrase " settlement-free peering " is in turn used to unambiguously describe the pure cost-free peering situation.

After the September 11 attacks, the phrase, especially in the United States, has come to symbolize heroism, self-sacrifice and initiative in a tough situation.

The situation is complicated by the fact that in some contexts a noun phrase may nonetheless be used without a determiner ( as in I like big houses ); in this case the phrase may be described as having a " null determiner ".

: The phrase " We're holding " or " They're holding " is another way of expressing the above situation regarding having the point.

The phrase is believed to come from the end-of-episode situation in adventure silent films of the early 1900s, with the protagonist literally left hanging from the edge of a cliff, although the oldest usage the Oxford English Dictionary has is from 1937.

" A phrase that Dick Martin would always say to interrupt Dan Rowan's announcements on what would happen during their next show ; this phrase was followed by a story about a bizarre situation that his aunt went through.

The phrase " Groundhog Day " has entered common use as a reference to an unpleasant situation that continually repeats, or seems to.

The phrase " gut feeling " may also be used as a short-hand term for an individual's " common sense " perception of what is considered " the right thing to do "; such as: helping an injured passerby, avoiding dark alleys and generally acting in accordance with instinctive feelings about a given situation.

The word " resistance ", though decidedly less dramatic, retains the alliterative character of the earlier phrase and is generally preferred by the majority of contemporary academic historians, as it more accurately describes the particulars of the political situation at the time.

* In British and American English, the phrase " no picnic " is used to describe a difficult or trying situation or activity.

This phrase came to signify a situation when whatever action is taken does not change the result.

The winner was Upset, whose name is sometimes erroneously thought to have popularized a new phrase in sports ( meaning an underdog beating the favorite )-in fact, the term " upset " was already in use to describe such a situation decades before.

The phrase " Hubertsburg Peace " is sometimes used as a description for any Treaty which restores the situation existing before conflict broke out.

Upon discussing it further, the two men agreed such a phrase was metaphorically suited to Frank's situation at the end of the novel.

The phrase game of chicken is also used as a metaphor for a situation where two parties engage in a showdown where they have nothing to gain, and only pride stops them from backing down.