"You have an unfortunate phrase in your language," said Rena slowly.

Perhaps unfortunate phrases, coined in California, play differently on the East Coast.

And that most unfortunate phrase, "blaming the victim," seems to have been buried.

She was a great advocate of mobile slaughterhouses visiting farms - a good idea, which, to use an unfortunate phrase, seems to have died the death.

That's an unfortunate phrase to use in relation to Christie, Rush.

Twenty years later, their marriage was on the rocks (an unfortunate phrase, under what proved to be the circumstances).

What is usually regarded as an unfortunate phrase in a hospital, "moving toward the light," was the guiding principle of the interior halls, he said.

This unfortunate phrase, which I find quite intolerable, now appears to have replaced the term 'healthy competition'.

In a speech, he used the unfortunate phrase "break neck speed" to highlight the problem.