Phrases

An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. Aphorisms are often handed down by tradition from generation to generation.

An oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. Examples would be "bittersweet" or "cruel kindness". As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox. A general meaning of "contradiction in terms" is recorded by the 1902 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

In grammar, a phrase called an expression in some contexts is a group of one or more words acting as a grammatical unit. This means that a phrase can be treated as a unit within a larger structure. For instance, the English sentence "the squirrel is very happy" is a clause phrase which contains the noun phrase "the squirrel" and the verb phrase "is very happy". Additionally, "very happy" is an adjective phrase. Phrases can consist of a single word or a complete sentence. In theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a constituent. There is a dif

A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, phrase, or word, is a sentence, phrase, or word using every letter of a given alphabet at least once. Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and typing.

thumb |upright |Pressing hands together with a smile to greet namaste – a common cultural gesture in India

art without any didactic, moral, or utilitarian function

A saying is any concise expression that is especially memorable because of its meaning or style. A saying often shows a wisdom or cultural standard, having different meanings than just the words themselves. Sayings are categorized as follows:

East Asian phrase used to wish long life

phrase the head of which is a noun

thumb|upright|Sam Weller, from a watercolor by 'Joseph Clayton Clarke|Kyd' Wellerisms, named after sayings of Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers, make fun of established clichés and proverbs by showing that they are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, Wellerisms that include proverbs are a type of anti-proverb. Typically a Wellerism consists of three parts: a proverb or saying, a speaker, and an often humorously literal explanation.

confrontation among two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger

phrase describing a large empire

in generative grammar, the theory of syntactic category formation that ① phrases may contain intermediate constituents projected from a head X; and that ② this system of projected constituency may be common to more than one category (e.g. N, V, A, P)

in a narrative, the consistency of characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over time

Political philosophy in Russia

Protestant domination of Ireland

Russian propagandist slogan

phrase about the political division of Spain up to the Spanish Civil War

political expression

rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax, used to break down a natural language sentence into its syntactic categories (both lexical and phrasal); used in transformational grammar; first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957

thumb|upright|Paper cutting machine with two separate hand buttons and one leg pedal for its operation. Requiring most of the operator's limbs to be used to activate the machine prevents them from being in dangerous positions while it operates.

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