Locutions

The downside of using both locutions is redundancy; the upside is precision and clarity, though I realize that the trade-off here is controversial. ❋ Unknown (2004)

European art, is not as yet equipped with all that reserve of terms and locutions which is demanded in a highly developed social life, ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

“They’re going to piss all over my leg,” he said, using one of his favorite locutions, meaning that he would lose their sympathy, such as it was, jeopardizing the picture’s chances at the box office. ❋ PETER BISKIND (2010)

I do not speak of those relatively familiar locutions that were discernable at least until fairly recently in the voice of H.M. The Queen, e.g. gawn awf for “gone off,” crawss for “cross,” lawst for “lost,” Awstralia for “Australia,” or sawft for “soft,” though these are plentiful and charming. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The former is an example of Hemingway's penchant for perky locutions -- he's forever referring to this or that as "a peach of a _______" -- and the latter is an instance of his disregard for syntax in the epistles. ❋ David Finkle (2012)

But the underlying human truth in each case is odder and more disturbing than Ms. Johnson's awestruck locutions suggest. ❋ Elizabeth Lowry (2011)

And especially with SF and fantasy, this tweaking gives me time to play around with all those little terms we like to make up (or find) that are intrinsic to a work of spec. fiction, locutions that make the world come alive and believable. ❋ Marshallpayne1 (2009)

If I wrote in the third person, too many multi-syllabic words and adult locutions would steal in. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And how surprising that, in the course of “outing” you, I found years worth of posts in which others noted your penchant for teenage locutions and, yes, self-aggrandizement. sophomoric invective ❋ Unknown (2010)

Only preteen girls find locutions like Stinky McStink Face and Hopey McChangey at all funny or defensible in any way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The website reports that following a two-year formal inquiry, Bishop David Rickin of the Green Bay diocese issued a decree with "moral certainty" that the events, apparition and locutions given to a young Belgian immigrant woman who claimed to have received three visits from the Virgin Mary at the Champion site in October of 1859. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Besides the music, in the words there is too much about the dear Savior, loving one another and such locutions for me to think it was the product of true feeling, but this may be due to the translation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As hip locutions go, "the DMV" might even be displacing "Chocolate City," the olde tyme designation for black Washington. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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