turn a phrase

The other kids are fine, they can turn a phrase.

He is a demon researcher and can turn a phrase.

She certainly knows how to turn a phrase and has a playful eye for detail.

I guess in Shakespeare's case, he had somewhat of an ability to turn a phrase - just a bit.

Once in a while, though, he turns a phrase that seems to capture the country's economic anxieties.

You have a remarkable ability to turn a phrase.

"My, you do have a way of turning a phrase, Ambassador.

It's just the way you turn a phrase sometimes."

"She could also turn a phrase faster than anyone.

"You can turn a phrase like a knife, you know?"

But Schroeder could always turn a phrase, crack a joke and laugh at herself.

Or to turn a phrase, when you're hot, apparently, you merely aren't freezing.

It seemed the perfect place for the most controversial of the nation's state poet laureates to turn a phrase.

She knows how to turn a phrase: "Return to my train of thought/but I miss the station."

Temirkanov has never told me how to turn a phrase."

"He sure can turn a phrase," the fellow in front of Yeager said. "

What else have you done with your life aside from turning a phrase and diddling with words?

McCourt still has the ability to turn a phrase deftly.

The most important thing is learning how to turn a phrase, how to make a simple melody sound interesting."

He could turn a phrase rather well, but in human understanding he was pitifully deficient.

The man could turn a phrase.

The haggard face, the big eyes, the deft way to turn a phrase and stick it in me like a bayonet.

CP can turn a phrase, but he's just working a niche he's found.

'You always did know how to turn a phrase.'

She is very good at that--her literary cleverness rarely misses an opportunity to turn a phrase around.