An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up.
Phrase whose parts are fixed in a certain order, even if the phrase could be changed without harming the literal meaning.
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Examples for "fixed phrase"
Examples for "fixed phrase"
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The filmy look and the fixed expression of them horrified me.
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There was a determined, fixed expression on the pale lips that frightened me.
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Anna Carroll, quite pale, with an odd, fixed expression, stood near her brother.
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The first shows him, evidently in pain, staring before him with a fixed expression.
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His heavy-lidded eyes had the fixed expression of a statue's.
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There is no formal moral, obtruding itself in set phrase.
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In set phrase, and as one who performs a duty frigidly pleasant, he congratulated her on her rumored union.
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In Spanish, it is a set phrase, less dramatic than it sounds when translated literally, but he soon looked pretty silly.
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Each begins with the set phrase "Hello, my name is X and I am an addictive eater" to which everyone replies "Hello X".
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But Asako only knew a few set phrases of her native tongue.
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They know all the set phrases belonging to special services and open-sir meetings.
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He spoke in set phrases, as if he had rehearsed the sentences many times.
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One cannot use any set phrases about such a monument.
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The technique employs a linear least squares fit that maps training set phrases to SNOMED concepts.
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Thou shalt have a hundred such set phrases, and five hundred to the boot of them.
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Over and over she conned the set phrases she was going to say when finally he came.
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I'm an enemy of the set phrases.
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There was no sparring for an opening, no dignified parade of set phrases, leading up to the main point.
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Hurriedly he turned over the pages to "Ammunition" and read down the set phrases and their code equivalents.
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As yet our intercourse has been limited to a few formal visits, and a few set phrases mingled with pantomime.
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By early 2019, May's habit of sticking to set phrases rather than shifting position to appease her critics was increasingly enraging lawmakers.