Collection of ready-made phrases, usually for a foreign language along with a translation.
1The idea is that they turn your head into a phrase book.
2It sounded like a question and answer in a phrase book.
3Going in now would be like deciphering hieroglyphics using a tourist phrase book.
4He waxed eloquent again, but the Englishman was busy with the phrase book.
5I'm damned if I know, and I've lost my phrase book.
6Her little phrase book seemed pitifully inadequate for the great things in her mind.
7Guy turned it up in his phrase book, and found that it meant interpreter.
8The days of needing a phrase book on a foreign holiday could soon be over.
9The English-speaking tourist would arrive, gripping the phrase book.
10The young Englishman took off his hat, and produced a phrase book from his pocket.
11Lydia looked up "Ducit Amor Patriae" in a phrase book the next day.
12This has clear advantages over thumbing through a phrase book, or even a comparable smartphone application.
13The gentleman had an open Baedeker in his hand, and the lady carried a phrase book.
14When she had finished, he took the phrase book from her, with a look almost affectionate.
15Our phrase book tells us that right now we are as infirm as gaily coloured talking birds.
16It was a phrase book of French and German intended for the use of British and Canadian soldiers.
Translations for phrase book