Collection of ready-made phrases, usually for a foreign language along with a translation.
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The idea is that they turn your head into a phrase book.
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It sounded like a question and answer in a phrase book.
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Going in now would be like deciphering hieroglyphics using a tourist phrase book.
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He waxed eloquent again, but the Englishman was busy with the phrase book.
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I'm damned if I know, and I've lost my phrase book.
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Her little phrase book seemed pitifully inadequate for the great things in her mind.
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Guy turned it up in his phrase book, and found that it meant interpreter.
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The days of needing a phrase book on a foreign holiday could soon be over.
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The English-speaking tourist would arrive, gripping the phrase book.
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The young Englishman took off his hat, and produced a phrase book from his pocket.
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Lydia looked up "Ducit Amor Patriae" in a phrase book the next day.
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This has clear advantages over thumbing through a phrase book, or even a comparable smartphone application.
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The gentleman had an open Baedeker in his hand, and the lady carried a phrase book.
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When she had finished, he took the phrase book from her, with a look almost affectionate.
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Our phrase book tells us that right now we are as infirm as gaily coloured talking birds.
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It was a phrase book of French and German intended for the use of British and Canadian soldiers.