# Term for and/or list of commonly used noun phrases?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-for-and-or-list-of-commonly-used-noun-phrases/499700 "2009-06-14T00:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-for-and-or-list-of-commonly-used-noun-phrases/499700/1 "2009-06-14T00:08:01Z")

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Looking for the term, if there is one, and/or a list/glossary of commonly used noun phrases. Things like “thinly disguised caricature” and “blanket statement” and “things that go bump in the night” and “red herring”. I guess some of the shorter ones are idioms but I wouldn’t think the longer ones are. Maybe a few are cliché phrases, but I’m only interested in noun phrases, and not things like “it was a dark and stormy night”. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/term-for-and-or-list-of-commonly-used-noun-phrases/499700/2 "2009-06-14T06:59:25Z")

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How about bromides?