They know a bunch of malarkey (to coin a phrase) when they hear it.

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But, to coin a phrase, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis is fed up, and isn't going to take it any more.

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But off-camera, everything he does is, to coin a phrase, driven by Ford.

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Could we not pay our senior professors an enormous amount, to increase a person's lifetime utility package (to coin a phrase) enough to draw in far-sighted youngsters?

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To coin a phrase: What would Mohammed say?

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It could be time for their counterparts in the biotechnology industry to coin a similar phrase though perhaps one that is more in keeping with the life-saving potential of their technology.

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That said, a large degree of what went wrong at HBOS was - to coin the phrase - systemic.

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