Example sentences of "greek have a word " in BNC.
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1 | Do the Greeks have a word for it ? |
2 | The Ancient Greeks had a word , ‘ hubris ’ , to refer to any human action that over-reached itself — of the kind that the Greeks regarded as an offence against the gods . |
3 | As usual , the Greeks had a word for it |
4 | Writers have sometimes brought in the phrase ‘ The Greeks had a word for it . ’ |
5 | The Greeks Had a Word For It was the title of a play by the American poet and playwright Zoe Akins , first produced in 1929 . |
6 | The reference was not sexual ; but in 1932 a film about three New York gold-diggers — forerunner of the Gold Diggers series and other movies — was called The Greeks Had a Word for Them . |