Ezekiel's phrase “ glory of YHWH ” ( glory of Yahweh ) describes the presence of the God of Israel which filled the Temple.

The Talmud describes the blind as having " much light " ( Aramaic סגי נהור ) and this phrase — sagee nahor — is the Modern Hebrew for euphemism.

He says that he has acquired shida we-shidot, an ambiguous phrase that may refer to a harem ( shdh or " breasts "); he describes how he could not find a virtuous woman ; and he exhorts the reader to enjoy ( re ' a ) life with his wife.

The concept of the prayer wheel is a physical manifestation of the phrase " turning the wheel of Dharma ," which describes the way in which the Buddha taught.

A standard joking phrase, common today in Northern England, is possibly first recorded in Varney, where a comical character twice describes himself as having " never been backward in coming forward.

The term laconic phrase describes a very terse and concise way of speaking that was characteristic of the Spartans.

To " bite one's tongue " is a phrase which describes holding back an opinion to avoid causing offence.

Where the Masoretic describes Yahweh as a " man of war " (), the Samaritan has " hero of war ", a phrase applied to spiritual beings, and in, the Samaritan reading " The Angel of God found Balaam " replaces the Masoretic " And God met Balaam.

, sometimes shortened to, is a Japanese slang portmanteau of the phrase and describes an attraction to young boys, or an individual with such an attraction.

He based the phrase on a concept in anthropology, the cargo cult, which describes how some pre-scientific cultures interpreted technologically advanced visitors as religious or supernatural figures who brought boons of cargo.

In 1949 the phrase appeared in an article by Walter Morrow in the San Francisco News ( published on 1 June ) and in Pierre Dos Utt's monograph, " TANSTAAFL: a plan for a new economic world order ", which describes an oligarchic political system based on his conclusions from " no free lunch " principles.

Tovey describes it as " a phrase so haunting that though Beethoven does not repeat the entire sections of this variation he marks the last four bars to be repeated ".

She describes these as " sensitive periods ", a phrase coined by de Vries during his studies on animals.

Then the Hebrew phrase ʼnāshîm midyanîm sōĥrîm in verse 28 describes Midianite traders.

Brown has argued that John is using a phrase that actually describes the linen as lying on a shelf within the tomb.

Brand equity is a phrase used in the marketing industry which describes the value of having a well-known brand name, based on the idea that the owner of a well-known brand name can generate more money from products with that brand name than from products with a less well known name, as consumers believe that a product with a well-known name is better than products with less well known names.

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.

The term Welfare state is used to describe a state in which the government provides the majority of Welfare services ; the phrase also describes those services collectively.

However, it is likely apocryphal, as The Churchill Centre describes the attribution as " an invented phrase put in Churchill's mouth.

Recalling the Story of Daruma-san in the introduction of his book, Dr. Gettis describes the phrase as " a call to never give up.

* Et in Arcadia Ego is also the title of Book One of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited in which the narrator, Charles Ryder, describes his room decorated with a skull bearing the phrase.

The term " The Law of the Jungle " is also used in a similar context, drawn from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ( 1894 )-though in the society of jungle animals portrayed in that book and obviously meant as a metaphor for human society, that phrase referred to an intricate code of laws which Kipling describes in detail, and not at all to a lawless chaos.

In Lee Iacocca's autobiography, he describes the origins of the phrase " Whiz Kids ".

The phrase also describes the effects of failing to update out-of-date web pages that clutter search engine results.

In Billy Joel's " You May Be Right ( I May Be Crazy )", the in-song narrator describes his dangerous past with the phrase " I was stranded in the Combat Zone ".

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 phrase " Catch-22 ", " a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule ," has entered the English language.

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.

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.

* 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.