"Pick up," a phrase coined by the City and Country School, is used deliberately.
(a phrase coined by the anarchist Lucy Parsons).
Outside the science fiction community, several words and phrases coined or adopted by Heinlein have passed into common English usage:
Who coined the phrase "black power"?
"Publish or perish" is a phrase coined to describe the pressure in academia to rapidly and continuously publish academic work to sustain or further one's career.
"The talking cure"--that quaintly old-fashioned phrase coined by the father of psychiatry to describe the science he had invented.
Who coined the phrase 'Gnomes Of Zurich'?
In fact, a phrase coined early in the last century to describe their movement and distribution is this microbial motto: "Everything is everywhere."
Hillman often quotes a phrase coined by the Romantic poet John Keats: "call the world the vale of soul-making."
She operated an 'elective dictatorship', a phrase coined, ironically, by Lord Hailsham about the Labour government under Wilson.