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Streatley receives more assistance from Goring, however, than is generally acknowledged in set phrase.

It's got to be a sort of set phrase about me, that I'm coming.

One youngish man kept repeating to himself a set phrase as he marched along.

Palikao, the Prime Minister, was termed in the papers an iron man (the usual set phrase).

He wrote as easily as he talked, colloquially, without any attempt at style or set phrase.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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