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Locution

noun
1.
A word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations.  Synonyms: expression, saying.






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"Locution" Quotes from Famous Books



... rabbit-hutch, they are as useless as they are harmless. The usual ornament of an animal's hind quarters is denied them; and were it not for this fact, and also for their difference in colour, the Shaksperean locution, "a rat without a tail," would ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton



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