In a high voice he used expressions she'd never heard before.

She had simply said that men shouldn't use certain expressions.

Already the Mayor had heard a couple of people in the press office use the expression.

How he was on the watch for his soul, if one may use the expression!

I was not quite sure, though confessed to having used the expression.

This method is probably why we now use the expression "in the first place."

Others have used different expressions to describe this same population.

Did we all have to be, to use the traditional expression, rocket scientists?

I used expressions which must have made my meaning clear if he had any notion of the truth.