Locution

Republicans, who have come up with the mid-term locution of "Pledge to America" to appropriate a populist tone, have meanwhile, called for an end of the "government takeover" of Fannie and Freddie and a "shrinking of their portfolios." ❋ Tom Silva (2010)

But we call a locution ˜proper™ when we use it according to the signification properly and principally given to it, and we call a locution ˜improper™ when we use it otherwise, although we legitimately can use it otherwise. ❋ Zupko, Jack (2006)

The preceding locution is established Mazzinian; the following clearly mine. ❋ Unknown (1883)

If it is true that “woof ticket” did not emerge into the mainstream print media until the 1980s and 1990s sources you cited, I would consider it a fascinating example of a short-lived slang locution entering written usage decades after it had achieved obsolescence in its original oral context. ❋ William Safire (2004)

When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Figures like Gracie Allen on Burns and Allen, as well as Jane Ace, known as "radio's mistress of misinformation" on The Easy Aces, simply turned that kind of locution into a routine in the 1930s. ❋ Unknown (1993)

From Rush Limbaugh to Kenneth Blackwell, conservatives are openly voicing their hope that the government will fail to address the downturn (which led Steve Benen to wonder, but to his "locution" and "rhetoric." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Credit is believed to be an exceptional example of this phenomenon, a rare instance of an ancient locution in Indo-European: *kerd- (“heart”) + *dhē- (“put”), meaning something like “to set the heart,” and thus “to place trust (in).” ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Baker expressed support for Arizona's "papers please" crackdown on undocumented immigrants and concerned advocacy groups like MIRA by touting his desire to limit benefits to "legal citizens," a locution that would bar benefits to legal, permanent taxpaying residents. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or how about some locution that both gets at and gets across the whole concept of getting at and getting across? ❋ Roy Blount Jr. (2011)

That locution drips with the condescension of language specifically drafted for the benefit of those poor souls who are congenitally slow on the uptake. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Therefore, to get away with this locution, you need to say something like: “These rare Chinese vases would have had identical rings suspended from their handles had they survived the hazardous processes of firing in the kiln, or if for unknown reasons, perhaps of taste, they had not been deliberately removed at a later date, or elseaccidentally broken.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

She had always referred to their elite coterie as The Pantheon of Bitches, a locution that irritated Ruby Blue. ❋ Marshallpayne1 (2009)

I hope that I never use the locution "America's health care problem." ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, to borrow a locution from Daniel Gross, "One would be very hard-pressed to find a serious professional historian -- I mean a serious historian, not a think-tank wanker, not an economist" who would argue that the New Deal consisted primarily of deposit insurance, going off the gold standard, and taking the foot off the monetary and fiscal brakes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Let's just say, to borrow a current political locution, he took a shellacking for his opinion. ❋ Gustav Niebuhr (2011)

Although “LOL” is [internet slang] for “[laughing out loud]”, it has become an actual locution among the [teenage girls] in our school. ❋ MsJanePorter (2017)