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Phraseological
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Same as
phraseologic
.
Indicating a tendency to coin phrases and to rely on mere wording for effect.
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adjective.
Of or pertaining to
phraseology
.
adjective.
Consisting of a peculiar form of words.
Word Usage
"Longer idioms, like to be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, "do not readily correlate with a given grammatical part of speech"; these he terms phraseological idioms."