結論: = 語彙あるいは言葉を作り出す
以前メモした lexicon を調べている際に、coin the phrase という表現があり、一瞬止まったのでメモ。（すぐに後述の 6 minutes English で出てきた語彙だと理解した）
用例①
まずは lexicon の用例でも使用した Washington Post の記事から。
In “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” with its gossipy behind-the-scenes look at the caprice of art and commerce, Mr. Goldman coined an enduring phrase in the Hollywood lexicon: “Nobody knows anything.”
自分も含めて多くの人が coin と聞くと最初に頭に浮かぶのでは硬貨などの「コイン」なのではないか。 動詞で使われるとは、学生時代には習わない。（はず）
用例②
次は BBC Learning English というすばらしい英語「学習」サイトからの引用。
Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., is an area of computer science that develops the ability of computers to learn to do things like solve problems or drive cars without crashing. But in what decade was the term 'Artificial Intelligence' coined?
余談ですが、BBC Learning English は英語「学習」サイトとしてはすばらしいのですが、その性質上、英語「学習」の域を出ないので、英語を身に付けるスピードを上げるためには、実際に生きた/生の英語が使われているものを聴くべきだと思います。（BBC Business Daily や BBC World Business Report など）
閑話休題。
用例③
最後に Forbs に掲載されていた Samantha の記事から。ストレートに coin a new phrase です。
Although there are dealers who carry love tokens and sell them ‘as is’ on eBay and Etsy and at antique shows, Samantha went on the hunt to find the most unique and unexpected words, phrases, motifs and engravings that she could find. Over the past three years, she amassed over 2,000 pieces from the 1800s onward, developed an idea for how to build a collection around them and coined a new phrase and way of wearing pieces from the past for the modern woman. She has named the collection Souvenir (after one of her favorite coins she found), a word with origins in France in the late 1800s that meant ‘remember’, Today, this is a word we think of as pieces we collect to help us recall memories of our favorite times, people and places, thus its the perfect word for a line that is steeped in mementos of the past, yet is re-imagined in a contemporary context. Her pieces that are meaningful for the self-purchaser, gift giver and/or recipient.
この例では米語スペルで favorite になってる。（英語スペルはfavourite）
