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...following topics: selling crack, making money, snorting coke, getting hoes, and of course, ballin’ in a fly car. The worst part is that Jones doesn’t even take the time to represent these topics in different ways. He uses a variation of the phrase “fast cars, fast money, and fly bitches” in the tracks “Lifestyle,” “Byrd Gang Money,” and “Love Me No More.” This is not to say that the mixtape doesn?...
...Autoclave,” Darnielle’s predictable refrain is “my heart’s an autoclave,” a metaphor that gives the listener a pretty good idea of its writer’s ethos. Anyone willing to begin a phrase with “my heart is a” must be willing to dig wholeheartedly into the center of melodrama. However, the metaphor is ultimately destined for the unglamorous autoclave, used to boil and pressurize liquids in order to make them sterile. Even then, there’s something more...
...game in his hands. He pulls down the offensive board and forces junior Evan Harris into a goaltending violation. Seconds later, a turnover by Lin leads to another Cornell breakaway and easy two. Harvard sits precariously on a one-point lead with nine seconds remaining. As the common phrase goes, this is where the wheels came off.“I just thought on the inbounds play they ran we just fell asleep on the backside of our defense,” head coach Tommy Amaker said.The Big Red inbounds the ball with nine ticks remaining. With no one guarding...
...Changing subjects ... your team has developed a kind of catchphrase, ubuntu. Explain what that's all about. Allen: In Africa it's a phrase, a way of life that people subscribe to. Meaning community, people building all they want and supporting each other, and being of one. We always say it, jokingly sometimes. If somebody walks into a room and they have one plate of food, Paul will be like, "Way to ubuntu." Pierce: "That's not ubuntu. I need a plate...
...magic phrase that brings luster to any career, sells tickets at the box office, moves millions of dvds. It's the gold standard for the film industry, pop culture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Get one, and when you die, the headline on your obit will proclaim oscar winner...