phraseology
noun
manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language.
phraseological
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a word derived from
phraseology.
Example Sentences
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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 Leona Dalrymple
Underlying those "phraseological inversions," so daintily cooed by the dove, was the wisdom of the serpent.
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
Now Johnson had spent years of his life, during the compilation of his Dictionary, in doing nothing else but defining; and, whenever the dispute took a phraseological turn, he had it all his own way.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black
