phrase

• n. フレーズ、イディオム、言い回し、音楽フレーズ
• vt.フレーズを作る、（楽曲を）フレーズに分ける

ラテン語のphrasis（フレーズする、表現する）から、ギリシャ語のphrazein（表現する、知らせる、話す）から、おそらくPIE*gwhren（考える、意志する、賢明である）のphren（考える、思考する）から、語源的にはfrantic（狂乱的な、熱狂的な）と同じ。

phrase

phrase: [16] Greek phrásis ‘speech, way of speaking’ was a derivative of the verb phrázein ‘show, explain’. English adopted it via Latin phrasis as phrasis, whose plural phrases eventually gave rise to a new singular phrase. From the same source comes periphrasis [16].
=> periphrasis

phrase (n.)

1520s, "manner or style of expression," also "group of words with some unity," from Late Latin phrasis "diction," from Greek phrasis "speech, way of speaking, enunciation, phraseology," from phrazein "to express, tell," from phrazesthai "to consider," from PIE *gwhren- "to think" (see frenetic). The musical sense of "short passage" is from 1789.

phrase (v.)

"to put into a phrase," 1560s; see phrase (n.). Related: Phrased; phrasing.

1. A phrase from the conference floor set my mind wandering.

会議で発言した人の一言が私の考えを遠ざけてくれた。

2.The phrase was not meant to be taken seriously.

この話は本気にする必要はありません。

3.Rose 's stories weren 't bad ; she had a nice turn of phrase .

ローズの物語はよく書かれており、彼女の言語表現は生き生きとしている。

4. He would sign off each week with the catch- phrase , "I'llsee thee!「

毎週番組を終える時、彼はその定番の言葉を言って、「また来週！」。

5.There is almost no phrase so simple that he cannot mangle it.

ほとんど簡単では表現できません。