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locution

noun as in phrasing

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I kept a list of such locutions as I was reading — an “index of themes,” to borrow the title of the opening poem.

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An awkward locution, but it appeases the sensitivity police.

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The New Hampshire Democrat, who got elected six years ago by a margin of just 1,017 votes, uses an unmistakably New England locution to describe her state’s voters: “Wicked independent.”

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These locutions clutter Seymour’s book, especially since what we do know of Rhys’s life and career is, if not encyclopedic, a good deal.

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If the locution “hard-boiled” had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters of Dashiell Hammett’s latest detective story.

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