Mairelon had a way of looking at her and raising his eyebrows whenever she used a cant phrase or misplaced a word.

We talk in a cant phrase of the Man in the Street, but the Frenchman is the man in the street.

There is a very popular cant phrase that you cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

The conduct of both actors is (in the cant phrase) psychologically correct, and the emotion aptly graduated up to the surprising climax.

They kept entirely by themselves, eyeing every one askance that came near them, as if measuring his claims to respectability; yet they were without conversation, except the exchange of an occasional cant phrase.

That's a cant phrase, but I mean it.

These were cant phrases so far as he was concerned and they missed the point.

Very full of cant phrases about 'our dear ones who have passed over,' and other things of the kind.

I merely sought to use a cant phrase correctly in the presence ofa Bluestocking!