1 (Gram) (Mús) frase (f) the opening phrases of the Lord's prayer he punctuated every phrase by slapping the counter the key phrase, though, is "all other things being equal" a writer spends many hours going over and over a scene - changing a phrase here, a word there it was a single short phrase being sung over and over again Stephen played a phrase: Jack replied with a variation
noun/verb phrase frase (f) nominal/verbal
a sentence consists of a noun phrase followed by a verb
2 (expression) frase (f) she had picked up some useful phrases había aprendido algunas frases útiles
I think the war was, /in Churchill's immortal phrase/, "Britain's finest hour"
I think, to use or to borrow your phrase, that ... creo que, usando tus propias palabras, ...
my German was practically nil - a few phrases here and there that's exactly the phrase I'm looking for it takes its name from the Maori phrase for "good health" that's exactly the phrase I'm looking for it takes its name from the Maori phrase for "good health" knowing so many Greek students in London, she had picked up some useful phrases Grenada was seen as proof, to use Reagan's phrase, that America was back to borrow a famous phrase of the Prime Minister's, a reporter asked Mr Mandela if Mrs Thatcher was a person he could do business with
3 (idiom) locución (f); giro (m) the French have a phrase for this state of affairs the old phrase "the survival of the fittest" he used a phrase I hate: "you have to be cruel to be kind" the American phrase "laying an egg" meaning to fail at something