Paraphrase

It was, to paraphrase Prince, a scoreline like it was 1999.

Ms Dowling said a reference in the report to a NSW Supreme Court judge’s opinion in a particular case was in fact a paraphrase of the views of the Australian Federal Police from an article in “The Australian” newspaper.

Nehemiah got bummed, prayed, and ultimately asked the king for his American Express card to get the job done (that’s a Ron Helle paraphrase).

So that’s to paraphrase your question.

To paraphrase Baldwin, it is naïve to permit others to define us; it is destructive.

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, if the government invests in the education of its people, no politician should take away this benefit.

To paraphrase song lyrics from the 1959 Best Picture Oscar winner, — humor, ah yes — I remember it well.

To paraphrase that old Simpsons line, let’s not think of 2023 as the hottest year of our life, let’s think of it as the coldest year of the rest of our lives!

To paraphrase the 19th-century Whig MP and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay: There is no spectacle more ridiculous as the British political class in one of its periodic fits of morality.

To paraphrase Timbuk 3, the future’s so bright, San Diego fans have to wear shades.

We wore these uniforms, to paraphrase Raymond Chandler, like a horse wears a stable, each having been bought a size and a half too big, so as to accommodate our wearing it for the entire year.

Instead, they say—and I paraphrase–sit with the suffering, join in it, honor it.

Sure, Biden had been on wrong every major issue for 40 years, to paraphrase former Defense secretary Bob Gates, but he was “wrong within normal parameters,” to invoke P.J. O’Rourke’s description of Hillary Clinton four years earlier.

Then switching gears from the world of big hair and tight trousers to that of glitter and friendship bracelets, she added: "To paraphrase Taylor Swift: ‘We were there.

To paraphrase a quote from an unknown source, while happy people may be thankful, it is thankful people who are truly happy.

To paraphrase The Bard, a tax hike by any other name is still a tax hike.

To paraphrase the Kotzker Rebbe, an 18th century Hasidic rabbi: it’s good to resurrect the dead, but it’s even better to resurrect the living.

To paraphrase the old bomb disposal expert joke, if you ever see Daniel Farke running away then try to keep up.

Well, to paraphrase Senator Lloyd Bentsen from the 1992 vice-presidential debate: We knew Ronald Reagan, but not in a million years would that deeply principled and thoroughly humble man have uttered such narcissistic dumbassery.

Within a year, the Government passed the War Damage Act 1965, which meant the state had no liability to its citizens for 'damage to, or destruction of, property' caused by war, to paraphrase quite a bit.