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then it's a phrase of some kind (the name of the kind is known to linguists, and was known to me for a while)>>
>>"Idiom" would do, though I suspect you're looking for something less open and shut. ;-)
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>It was something more specific, but no matter how much I remember and try, the words won't come to me.
colloquialism?
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