But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.

A particularly galling phrase was `` O.K., Panyotis, we have time at our disposal ''.

I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.

She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.

In Senator Joseph McCarthy's phrase, it was the most unheard-of thing ever heard of.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

It was an automatic phrase ; ;

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

But for even the most active citizen the formal basis of his political activity was the invitation issued to everyone ( every qualified free male Athenian citizen ) by the phrase " whoever wishes ".

In the United States, farmland was typically divided as such, and the phrase " the back 40 " would refer to the 40 acre parcel to the back of the farm.

Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as " there was nothing new to report on the Western Front " within the narrative.

During its design stages the name Victorie Stadion was frequently used, referring to the Dutch War of Independence, the phrase " n Alkmaar begint de victorie " ( Victory begins in Alkmaar ) in particular.

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.

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.

It was at this time that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in order to provide proof of the falsity of the accusations leveled against him, in tablets to the West, stated that he was to be known as "` Abdu ' l-Bahá " an Arabic phrase meaning the Servant of Bahá to make it clear that he was not a Manifestation of God, and that his station was only servitude.

The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.

The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

Before controversy erupted ( see below ) he exhibited an obsession with fire and his trademark phrase was " FIRE!

The most frequently cited example — although it is almost never employed by current users — involves the replacement of " stairs " with the rhyming phrase " apples and pears ".

This phrase never meant that the period is one in which both bronze and stone were used.

Some also began to use the phrase to refer to non-marital unions: a man interviewed in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor admitted: " I never had a wife, but I have had two or three broomstick matches, though they never turned out happy.

However, Karl Marx never used the phrase " labor theory of value " to describe his theory of value, but instead made reference to a law of value, which is not to be confused with the classical economics concept of labor theory of price.

Although Plato does not have an explicit theory of natural law ( he almost never uses the phrase natural law except in Gorgias 484 and Timaeus 83e ), his concept of nature, according to John Wild, contains some of the elements found in many natural law theories.

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.

Though retrospectively it may seem to us that Franklin may have idealized the Indians to make a rhetorical point, the phrase " noble savage " never appears in his writings.

A number of representational phrase structure theories of grammar never acknowledged phrase structure rules, but have pursued instead an understanding of sentence structure in terms the notion of schema.

Representing the 47 syllables of the iroha syllabary and adds kyo ( 京, " capital ") for the 48th ( since the syllable-n ん can never start any word or phrase ).

The phrase was never uttered by anyone in the original series, although " Scotty, beam me up " was spoken by Admiral Kirk in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

It seemed that either Jelic had seen the Vinland Map and promised not to reveal its existence ( keeping the promise so rigidly that he never mentioned any of the other new historical information on the map ), or that he had invented the phrase as a scholarly description, and the Vinland Map creator copied him.

Crébilllon also described Marivaux's style as an introduction of words to each other, which have never made acquaintance and which think that they will not get on together ( this phrase is itself rather Marivaux-esque ).

This response was translated by journalists to become the famous phrase " Caister men never turn back ".

Although the phrase " gift economy " is never explicitly mentioned, the scheme would, in effect, create one.

" although Geldof has stated that this phrase was never uttered.

According to Brewer's dictionary, " The phrase has never been satisfactorily accounted for, but it has been said that cheese was formerly sold in Cheshire moulded like a cat that looked as though it was grinning ".

The slang phrase " L7 " can be heard in the Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs song " Wooly Bully " (" Let's not be L7, come and learn to dance ..."), in the Rick James song " Bustin ' Out " (" L7-just a little too damn straight ..."), and in the Paul McCartney song " C Moon " (" I could be L7 and I'll never get to heaven if I fill my head with glue ").

However, Rudolph is never directly mentioned by name ( references are replaced by a character interrupting with the phrase " Don't say that name!

Melanchthon ( though a phrase in one of his letters has been strangely misconstrued ) never regarded him with theological suspicion.

Fitzsimmons ' " solar plexus " punch became legendary, although he himself may never have used the phrase.

After Mao's death, the phrase has never been used for any individual.