Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sample "Talking Todd" phrase, repeated ad nauseum: "What's this 'we' stuff? Are you French or pregnant...
...great hope that, by Frebruary of next year, the staff will have learned to phrase its opinions in more eloquent terms than "So screw you." --Daniel Altman...
...march family is the creation of a 19th century New England lady who never heard the phrase ``family entertainment'' but in her innocence imagined that by telling the story of one family that was going about the ordinary business of life, she could divert and instruct other families...
...about the odd January weather combined, the high courtroom drama was the big payoff. But those who had cynically decided in advance that the so-called trial of the century would be nothing more than an interminable media fest were guilty of, to use Johnnie Cochran's new favorite phrase, ``a rush to judgment...
...Japan earthquake was different. ``The country is a really efficient, orderly place,'' he observes. ``The people conduct themselves with great self- control. Shoganai--it can't be helped--is a phrase I heard a lot last week. It was a sense of monumental tragedy that had arrived and would pass, like so many before it.'' Looking up at the full moon after long nights of work, he found it hard to believe the disaster had really happened. Still, he stocked up on rations and bought helmets for his wife and three children...