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Phrase

Words classified as "Phrase": browse meanings, regions, and examples.

This page brings together every word tagged "Phrase" across the dictionary. A category like this travels — pop in the Midwest, soda in the Northeast, coke in the Deep South — and the listing shows just how wide that travel goes.

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All show, no substance.

Texas

Yes / affirmative.

Maine · New Hampshire · New England

Sympathy on the surface, often condescending or passive-aggressive.

Texas · Georgia · Alabama · South Carolina · +3 more

"Down to the ocean" (Baltimore beach-trip phrase).

Maryland, Baltimore

About to do something; getting ready to.

Texas · Alabama · Georgia · Tennessee · +2 more

A heavy, sudden downpour.

Texas · Oklahoma · Mississippi · Alabama · +1 more

Not from Maine (a polite way of saying it).

Maine · New England

Greeting (how is it / how are you).

Hawaii

And that. A general-purpose Pittsburgh sentence-ender.

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh

A short, polite "excuse me" interjection.

Minnesota · Wisconsin · Iowa · Michigan · +3 more

Over there (often pointing).

Texas · Tennessee · Alabama · Kentucky · +2 more

Coffee with milk and sugar (in NYC delis).

New York, New York City

To chat informally, swap stories.

Hawaii

Highway number with the definite article (SoCal).

California, Los Angeles

Manhattan (when said in the NYC metro).

New York, New York City · New Jersey · Connecticut

Lake Michigan (when said in Chicago).

Illinois, Chicago

Mt. Rainier is visible from Seattle today.

Washington, Seattle · Pacific Northwest