NOUN
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
How To Use set phrase In A Sentence
- A set phrase is always fixed.
- Notice that this is a set phrase.
- In official documentary language, the use of set phrase has its functions, characteristics and principles.
- For me, the intransitive use of ‘bore easily’ is a minor cliché, that is, a phrase I recognize when I see it as a set phrase, even though I might not see it all that often.
- Can you guess a set phrase with them?
- Later the set phrase a bamboo is used to refer to irresistible force or victorious advance.
- You may remember it a set phrase and the two phrases are the same in meaning.
- I know it's a set phrase.
- Can you guess a set phrase with them?
- Did I say a set phrase just now?