The phrase to be left holding the bag is as widely used as the expression to let the cat out of the bag.

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It could make him, as the phrase goes, into an oral person.

会使孩子形成所谓的口腔期人格。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So what it might be would be a phrase that has struck one as if for the first time.

因此这种支点也许是,某人刚刚想到的一个短语。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He had a famous phrase to express this idea, "The quantity of pleasure being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry."

他有一句名言表达此观点，只要快乐的总量相等，针戏与诗一样好“

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

And so Milton writes : "And when we return to our native Olympus" and in a classically oriented poem such as this a phrase like "our native Olympus" would always serve to signify the Christian heaven.

所以在83页他写到：,“当我们回到奥林匹斯山“,在古典主义的诗里，如这句,“我们的奥林匹斯山“通常象征着基督教的天堂。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It sort of opens things up, and we refer to this as the antecedent phrase.

可以说是开启一切,我们可以把它当做先行乐句

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