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Example sentences for: locutions

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There are also sundry off-the-rack locutions that can dress up language to similar effect, such as the long-established blah blah
These locutions would be of little importance, I think, if it were not for the fact that they have been adopted by most of the news media and the entertainment industry.
Isn't this an odd locution for a paper with a style sheet so famously politically correct that it bans such non-issue locutions as "to welsh on a bet"?
My guess is that it will achieve, at the very least, a kind of status that is going to be conferred on more and more English locutions as time goes on: the status of a native idiomatic expression whose constituency is in fact an international group of English speakers.
This is particularly true for me of a language like Thai, which is geographically and grammatically half a world away from my mother tongue, English, such that many Thai locutions give pause and delight.