In mathematics, the phrase " almost all " has a number of specialised uses.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

His comment on Numbers 23: 19 has a still more polemical tone: “ God is not a man that he should lie ; neither the son of man, that he should repent ; < font face =" times new roman " size = 3 > if a man says: ‘ I am a god ’ he is a liar ; if he says: ‘ I am a son of man ’ he will have cause to regret it ; and if he says, ‘ I will go up to heaven ’ he has said but will not keep his word ” last phrase is borrowed from B ' midbar 23: 19 ( Yer.

The anthropic principle has given rise to some confusion and controversy, partly because the phrase has been applied to several distinct ideas.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

The essence of Deuteronomistic theology is that Israel has entered into a covenant ( a treaty, a binding agreement ) with the god Yahweh, under which they agree to accept Yahweh as their god ( hence the phrase " god of Israel ") and Yahweh promises them a land where they can live in peace and prosperity.

The phrase Great White Way has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by Albert Paine.

Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.

The quotation from the Gospel of John has raised some questions about the meaning and authenticity of the phrase " born again ".

Occasionally a code word achieves an independent existence ( and meaning ) while the original equivalent phrase is forgotten or at least no longer has the precise meaning attributed to the code word.

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 ".

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.

In morphology and syntax, a clitic is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.

Due to the possibility of confusion between the use of the word " cytosol " to refer to both extracts of cells and the soluble part of the cytoplasm in intact cells, the phrase " aqueous cytoplasm " has been used to describe the liquid contents of the cytoplasm of living cells.

The phrase pariter cum Scottis in the Latin text of the Chronicle has been translated in several ways.

Controversy in matters of theology has traditionally been particularly heated, giving rise to the phrase odium theologicum.

The phrase has come to mean any injury, damage or harm ( physical or otherwise ) caused to a third party due to the action of belligerents.

The US Army has published military phrase books in Esperanto, to be used in war games by mock enemy forces.

The nominalist approach is to argue that certain noun phrases can be " eliminated " by rewriting a sentence in a form that has the same meaning, but does not contain the noun phrase.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

The phrase may have its origins as early as 1908 in the cadence song now called " The Army Goes Rolling Along ", which likely extended into tank usage.

Due to both the Pied Piper's tale, and the growing importance of social occasion over traditional heraldry occurring in the same historical period, it is speculated that both origins resulted in an identical phrase with two separate meanings.

The Latin phrase " deus ex machina " has its origins in the conventions of Greek tragedy, and refers to situations in which a mechane ( crane ) was used to lower actors playing a god or gods onto the stage at the end of a play.

Although the name " Mad Hatter " was clearly done and inspired by the phrase " as mad as a hatter ", there is some uncertainty as to the origins of this phrase.

Through the 1970s, Greene was the spokesman for Alpo Beef Chunks dog food commercials, one of the possible origins of the phrase " Eating your own dog food "

The phrase was popularized by Peter Drucker as the title of Chapter 12 in his book The Age of Discontinuity, And, with a footnote in the text, Drucker attributes the phrase to economist Fritz Machlup and its origins to the idea of " scientific management " developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor.

Its origins are debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle — a bald-headed man ( possibly with a few hairs ) with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with the fingers of each hand clutching the wall — became associated with GIs in the 1940s.

This phrase has its origins in the posting of army officers to particular ' stations ' during the days of the East India Company.

This is supposedly the origins of the phrase " humble pie ", literally a pie made from the organs of the deer.

The origins of the phrase in English, however, can be traced back to the early 20th century.

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

This phrase has its origins in the posting of army officers to particular ' stations ' during the days of the East India Company.

Although few documents survive to explain how Dunster thought of himself, he did use a phrase in one letter, ego enim Lancastrensis sum, suggesting that he was a modest, hard-working, Lancashire lad, proud of his northern English origins and of his noted Lancashire accent.

* Popular fallacies in the attribution of phrase origins

No one author, organization, or vendor owns the term " IT service management " and the origins of the phrase are unclear.

Judy Garland in her role as Dorothy Gale | Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ) | The Wizard of Oz is one of two likely origins for the phrase " friend of Dorothy " referring to a gay man or LGBT person.

Nikah also translates literally as sexual intercourse, giving hints as to the Arabic entomological origins of the phrase, " Aqd Nikah ", with Aqd translating to contract.

The origins of the phrase pre-date the First World War.

Other earlier origins to the phrase are accepted by the writing community and by lexicographers.

While the exact origins of the phrase are unknown, it is commonly believed to have been coined by Americans during World War II.

The modern usage of the phrase is somewhat separate from its scriptural origins.

Though Fust was later freed after the bibles ' origins were revealed, many still believed he was in league with Satan, thus the phrase.