Phrase Words Freɪz Noun Memorable/Catchy Start Slowly Key

• a memorable/catchy phrase
• ‘start slowly’ is the key phrase for the first-time marathon runner.
• she was, in her own favourite phrase, ‘a woman without a past’.
• colourful words and phrases

phrase

1. a group of words that have a particular meaning when used together
• SEE ALSO catchphrase
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/catchphrase
• a memorable/catchy phrase
• ‘Start slowly’ is the key phrase for the first-time marathon runner.
• She was, in her own favourite phrase, ‘a woman without a past’.
• colourful words and phrases

Extra Examples

• He just comes out with the same old stock phrases.
• Her unfortunate choice of phrase offended most of the audience.
• In 1998, he trademarked the phrase ‘Freedom of Expression’.
2. a small group of words (usually without a finite verb) that together have a particular meaning and that typically form part of a sentence. ‘the green car’ and ‘on Friday morning’ are phrases.
• SEE ALSO noun phrase
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/noun-phrase
• a two-word phrase
3. a short series of notes that form a unit within a longer passage in a piece of music
4. used to introduce a well-known expression that you have changed slightly in order to be funny
• Tasting is believing, to coin a phrase! (= the usual phrase is ‘seeing is believing’).
5. used to show that you are aware that you are using an expression that is not new
• Oh well, no news is good news, to coin a phrase.
6. a particular way of describing something
• He is meticulous in his choice of words and turns of phrase.

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘style or manner of expression’): via late Latin from Greek phrasis, from phrazein ‘declare, tell’.