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Not missing from Mr. Kamps’s script, which has fun with some of the dialect’s phraseological oddities, but missing from Mr. Quinn’s production.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2018

Then he changed his mind, reverted to melo dramatic people and situations, but kept the stream-of-consciousness style and some phraseological high jinks.

From Time Magazine Archive

This man to man game had certain phraseological conclusions.

From When the Yule Log Burns A Christmas Story by Dalrymple, Leona

It has verbal and phraseological peculiarities of its own.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

But in the mechanical, phraseological movement of his thought he was able to hide himself.

From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben