The phrase
"to coin a phrase" means that someone is about to use a familiar saying or expression.
Full definition
This is a
recently coined phrase that has now been adopted by many «forecasting» (scheduled weather) agencies.
Tom Peters,
who coined the phrase in 1997 in his Fast Company article «The Brand Called You,» had this to say:
The couple are perhaps most well - known
for coining the phrase «attachment parenting» with their 2001 book The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby.
Since
coining the phrase in the 1980s, Drayton has shepherded the idea to international prominence in large part through his work at the Ashoka Foundation.
In fact, he just bought into a company that it majority owned by a private equity firm whose co-founder is credited
with coining the phrase «private equity.»
Step forward the man who
coined a phrase which captured the zeitgeist of another Conservative era... «Loadsamoney» Harry Enfield.
That event is noteworthy for its connection to one of astronomy's greatest mysteries: who
first coined the phrase «island universe.»
Further,
Gottman coins the phrase turning toward one another to describe how couples can learn to react in a positive way to one another's bids for attention rather than «turning away» — which generally involves ignoring a partner's bid, or acting preoccupied.
All of this is what Grenz calls «affective sexuality» (he did
n't coin the phrase), which says that «All... relationships are sexual, insofar as our fundamental sexuality lies at the basis of the quest for community, which leads to the process of making and enjoying friendships» (p. 220).
Since coining the phrase «inbound marketing» around 2006, HubSpot's vision has been to provide businesses a marketing automation system that empowers marketers to plan, develop, implement and measure marketing plans that attract your buyers (inbound) to your business through digital channels.
Witness the graphs with their plummeting lines, the anguished presentation of statistics by the denominational hierarchy, and the curious blend of pessimism and hope communicated through such newly
coined phrases as a «decrease of the decrease» to describe a «bottoming out» of the downward curves.
If anything, kids are «snacked to death» (to
coin a phrase used by my friend and colleague Sally Kuzemchak of Real Mom Nutrition), and if we dared tell American parents that they couldn't bring lunch from home, there'd be an armed uprising.
Indeed, I think it was Sarah Lacy on TechCrunch who
coined the phrase More about Business than Thwarting Evil.
The film critic Nathan
Rabin coined the phrase «manic pixie dream girl» to denote a trope character in indie films, that of the kooky unconventional beauty who opens the eyes of the «broodingly soulful» male protagonist to life's wonders.
In 1993, Australian veterinarian Ian
Billinghurst coined the phrase BARF diet, an acronym for Bones and Raw Food, or Biologically Appropriate Raw Food.
In fact, a young sculptor named Donald Judd who wrote criticism for Arts magazine at the time, reviewed the show and in reference to its title
coined the phrase Op Art in his review.
Like many trained resume writing veterans (since about 1990 for me), I was using a kind of personal branding process with clients before it had a name — well before Tom
Peters coined the phrase in 1997.
Back in the 1930s, as Huey Long ascended in Louisiana politics,
students coined the phrase «the old college try» to describe the best efforts of the home team.
The
British coined the phrase «quasi-market mechanism» to describe policies that replace state service monopolies with a roster of independent providers who compete for business.
The Association for Information and Image
Management coined the phrase to bring attention to the massive amount of data companies get and store in email without considering how smart, safe or practical it is to keep it there.
It's generally accepted that Jim
Collins coined the phrase «Big Hairy Audacious Goal» or, as it's touted in meetings all around the world today, the «BHAG.»
1817: Welsh manufacturer and labor rights activist Robert
Owen coins the phrase «Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest,» dividing the day into three equal eight - hour parts.
But Black Lives Matter has steadily gained momentum since its founding in 2013, when activist Alicia
Garza coined the phrase and fellow activist Patrisse Cullors made it a hashtag.
It was in 1960, at the Masters in Augusta, Ga., that a local
newspaper coined the phrase «Arnie's Army,» when soldiers from nearby Camp Gordon followed Palmer.
Sociologist Charles
Perrow coined the phrase «normal accidents» in the 1980s to describe how large accidents, although rare, are inevitable, and even normal in a complex system.
In fact, there are so many adjectives starting with the letter «D» that are associated with the attitudes shared by successful business people, that I've
coined the phrase Type D Personality to summarize them.
In the mid-to-late «90's, as the first roots of the Internet began to take hold, Don
Tapscott coined the phrase The Digital Economy.