Shakespeare's cynical turn of phrase - "They doth protest too much" - comes to mind.
Was that a beautiful turn of phrase or a particularly clunky section that could do with an edit?
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Barack Obama gave a dull and pedestrian speech tonight, with nary an interesting thematic device, policy detail, or even one turn of phrase.
Filipinos, adopting an American turn of phrase, refer to the mutual interference among the different branches of government as a system of checks and balances.
Indeed, it seems fair to say that if you have the quick wit and the pithy turn of phrase traditionally needed to succeed as a public intellectual, then you are one of nature's bloggers.
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In a turn of phrase which I think many Keynesians today might feel would have been better left unsaid, Keynes argued that this would work even if workers were hired by the government simply to dig holes in the ground and fill them up again.
With that wonderful turn of a phrase, Senior Judge Stephen Williams began another U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.
Interrupt someone explaining why they love a certain restaurant to point out a clumsy turn-of-phrase?
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Bill Bonner, founder of Agora and a book-writing machine, has a steel-trap mind with an ability to turn a phrase that is way beyond that of your humble analyst.
As scriptwriter, Mr Yong partly retains the epistolary form of the novel and can turn a witty phrase.
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