This paper aims to contribute to the current updating of the CZER1 lexicon grammar table of Italian frozen verbal phrases (" V Det Zéro N1 " /N0 cambiare bandiera, change sides). The analysis of a contemporary corpus of written utterances with verbs of speech whose objects are exclamations " V. say - N1 exclamation " has helped me to add further detail to some definitions in the original table and to offer other possible verbs for these frozen phrases. Comparing these utterances has enabled me to suggest that what makes these phrases frozen utterances is less the specific quality of N1 than a so called [ hum] factor of N0.