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Example sentences for: locution

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The LAT front and the insides of the Wall Street Journal and the WP report that a consortium of Blue Cross health plans in 38 states (why does the WSJ in its story use the odd locution "more than 35 states"?)
But there is in the Diary a locution that I have encountered only there, I believe in Shakespeare, and commonly, though less and less, in the speech of West Texas farmers: like(d) to ...
This duplicates precisely the U huntin'-shootin' -fishin' locution of my British youth, and could be another reason for calling West Indians the last Englishmen left around.
"Is it true you said of James Barksdale and Marc Andreessen, in an inexplicably British locution, 'I don't ever want to hear that those c**ts earned one sodding shilling off their bloody browser'?"
I am probably one of your longest-standing subscribers (a very awkward locution but I am probably not one of your oldest).