stock phrase

He was also well known for using a stock phrase "and it's in there!"

This is reduced by context effects and the use of stock phrases.

"Comrade" has often become a stock phrase and form of address.

I could use any one of the several stock phrases or platitudes about this.

In Hand's analysis, "due process" is no more than a stock phrase to cover a long tradition of common law procedure.

Philip smiled, for this was one of his uncle's stock phrases.

However, because this is a stock phrase, it usually occurs as a fixed pattern.

Those for stud services did: offspring to stand and walk was the stock phrase.

As in Pearl, a stock phrase or cliché can at any moment be given new point.

Stand and deliver is a stock phrase associated with highwaymen.

The melting pot remains a stock phrase in American political and cultural dialogue.

When challenged about these relationships, his stock phrase is, "I was a perfect gentleman."

She smiled, realizing it was a stock phrase he must have learned from doctors examining him here.

McCarthy also was known for the stock phrases he would intersperse into his radio show.

"I am honored," said Kim in the stock phrase of greeting.

The subjunctive mood form has disappeared except for a few stock phrases.

This parodied her education by its use of stock phrases and morals.

To cover our confusion and to keep our emotional needs under control we deal with them by using stock phrases.

An epithet is a stock phrase that captures some part of a person's basic character.

To use the stock phrase, alive or dead.

It was a stock phrase, but Gemma found she meant it.

Stock phrases everyone has heard a thousand times.

The final line puns on the stock phrase "the lesser of two evils".

But he quickly tethered himself to the ground, repeating well-made stock phrases.

"For a start, there are stock phrases scattered all through their language that refer to the Giants.