Sarah strayed away from the rest, from the glib phrases that flowed so readily from the dragoman's tongue.

He was probably not even conscious of the triteness of his glib phrases.

"It's an appealing but glib phrase: 'Let the people decide,' " Mr. Green said.

Ships and seamen rot in harbour: a glib phrase but a true one.

The glib phrases were uttered.

He thought, We are incomplete supermen, but that glib phrase no longer seemed to be enough.

"Salute smartly and charge up the hill" - a glib phrase, yet it spoke to emotions that "War is not healthy" left cold.

One of his more irritating habits was the use of glib, trite old phrases.

Most have spent all their sentient life as paid-up devotees, and the glib phrases soon roll off the tongue.

Fleet Admiral Ian Kyle Riker found the phrase glib, vaguely insensitive.