| 单词 | to coin a phrase |
| 释义 | to coin a phrasephrase See full dictionary entry for coinYou say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché. Fifty local musicians have, to coin a phrase, banded together to form the Jazz Umbrella. to coin a phrase in British Englishsaid ironically after one uses a cliché to coin a phrasesaid when you are making a pun or using a clichÈ or colloquial expression, in order to show that you realize people might think that it is a silly or boring thing to say, but you think it is relevant in spite of this Stunned Jackson was, to coin a phrase, `sick as a parrot'. |
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