#phrase

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control. ↗

— John Cornyn

#control #english #english language #i #i do

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#eat #foods #mostly #much #paraphrase

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ↗

— William Safire

#american #american culture #compound #culture #device

To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity. ↗

— James Schuyler

#change #disparate #elements #entity #form

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. ↗

— Stendhal

#gave #had #heard #i #i think

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. ↗

— Romeo LeBlanc

#am #among #children #future #help

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#nails #similes #well-worn-phrases #christmas

Atlas smirked. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#paraphrased #unintentional-humor #humor

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little ↗

— Shannon Hale

#romantic-humor #humor

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us". ↗

— Malcolm X

#cole-porter #paraphrased #song-lyrics #song-lyrics