| 单词 | slang expression |
| 例句 | And these children threw around swear words I’d never heard before, even, and slang expressions that were just as new to me, such as “stud” and “cat” and “chick” and “cool” and “hip.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Tommy read a lot, and when he was in fourth grade he had started collecting slang expressions that he thought were funny. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z And that normality, that common touch, that easy way of using slang expressions instead of big words when addressing workmen, has elevated me to national treasurehood. Alan Partridge: How I became a national treasure 2013-07-27T05:00:00Z At the gym, the staff would practice slang expressions on me that they’d heard in rap songs, and I would smile and respond using proper grammar like the professional teacher I was. What I Learned From My Instagram Crush 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z About that time, the company was stumped for new material, so it asked its sales staff to send back slang expressions from the road. From ‘Be Mine’ to ‘Youda Best,’ the candy heart conversation evolves 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z “Where is Messi? We broke his eye!” fans have been singing in Arabic, using a slang expression meaning to bring shame on a person. World Cup Viewer’s Guide: Argentina, Messi look for rebound 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z “Where is Messi? We broke his eye!” they sing in Arabic, using a slang expression meaning to bring shame on a person. Messi, Argentina under pressure for Mexico game at World Cup 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z I avoid discussing religious holidays, foods, or practices and avoid in-group slang expressions or speech inflections. Perspective | I think I saw my boss abuse his child at the office. What should I have done? 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Prosecutors, he said, “obviously think I’m the O.G., but I’m not,” Stone said, using a slang expression meaning “original gangster.” Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone indicted by special counsel in Russia investigation 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z “They don’t want some bog roll Brexit - soft, yielding and seemingly infinitely long” he said, using a British slang expression for toilet paper. EU supporters march in London to call for Brexit deal referendum 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Others who have seen the shirt say the “jo” is mocking a slang expression used by some black youths in the neighborhoods where the units focus. Controversial police T-shirt leads to dismissal in D.C. gun case 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z A balding, mustachioed man with a penchant for slang expressions, he looks to many Greeks like one of their father’s backslapping companions from the local kafeneio, as traditional village cafes are called. Meimarakis Targets Upset Over Tsipras in Greek Election 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Her first post on Instagram about a year ago was a sequence of meaningless slang expressions from the Caribbean coast, delivered with a very strong accent. The Colombian who teaches Colombian 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Sometimes a tight headline count tempts us to use a slang expression just because it’s short. The Slang Patrol 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It derives from the phrase "kick the bucket", a slang expression for dying. Malaysia Airlines scraps quiz title 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z A new generation of Australians is coining fewer slang expressions and borrowing more from abroad. Can Australian slang survive? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The close contact of French and British troops in WW1 resulted in a number of slang expressions borrowed from French, often with humorous anglicisation of spelling and pronunciation. The English expressions coined in WW1 2014-02-22T01:37:15Z Rehnhjelm supposed factory to be a slang expression for theatre, but the porter explained to him that the actor-manager was also a match manufacturer. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Nine Points of Perfection: Nine is a trinity of trinities, and is a mystical number of perfection; the slang expression “dressed to the nines” means dressed to perfection. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z For his heroine he imagined a girl of boisterous spirits, straightforward, true, but somewhat unconventional, and given to use slang expressions. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The Cadger’s “see youse later,” then, was to be taken literally, and not, as he had supposed, as simply a common and slang expression of adieu! Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z The use of the word as a slang expression for a lucky accident appears to have been first applied in billiards to an unintentional scoring shot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z “To cut the cabbage” is a slang expression among the Slavs for killing a Turk, in allusion to the green turbans worn by the descendants of the prophet. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Well, that frugal little wife, to use a slang expression, was "dead broke," and in arrears for her board bill. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document To ‘work the twig’ is rural English for the craft of Dousterswivel in the Antiquary, and perhaps from this comes our slang expression to ‘twig,’ or divine, the hidden meaning of another. Custom and Myth New Edition Sloppy white letters on the sides of the aircraft spelled such slang expressions as, "Flash the MAGNETS," "SupercOlossalSoniC Flap ship," and "Redheads amble OTHer canop." Thy Rocks and Rills It is also used as a slang expression, American in origin, for a harmless 375 lunatic, or a faddist, whose enthusiasm for some one idea or hobby becomes a monomania. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" It is marvellous what an apparent strength of argument lies in those slang expressions familiar to certain orders of men. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day The groups are only connected with each other almost entirely by means of moving intermediaries, called trimardeurs, a slang expression borrowed from the thieves. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory The Negro now binds himself to the service of this second man for fourteen months, which, to use a slang expression, is surely “going some.” The Ultimate Criminal The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 Just what he meant by such a slang expression he probably knew best of all. The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave The earliest instances in English of the use of the slang expression "the deuce," in exclamations and the like, date from the middle of the 17th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" In short, to use a slang expression, I distinctly got away with it. The Harbor Then 'Davy,' again, is a vulgar slang expression for affidavit, but it is also used in thief-parlance by way of an oath. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore Here we have the 'living walls' of the Romans—two old stories blended into one, and the whole greatly strengthened by a modern slang expression. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy After using this now well-known slang expression, the learned sergeant continues to say: 'Have I not waked, that you might sleep; cared, that you might enjoy? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 Rather, it was a slang expression referring to a major advance in inter-planetary travel due to a maximum scientific and technological effort. The Quantum Jump In using this slang expression George was literally correct, for the bathing-pool was not a natural feature of the scenery: it was artificial, and had been instituted a week after the arrival of the family. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication It has thus been inferred that 'Davy' is a slang expression of somewhat blasphemous import; but this is by no means certain. Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore These are only a few of the slang expressions which occur to me. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home The safest rule is to avoid slang expressions because of their general bad taste and because of their weakening effect on one's vocabulary of good words. Practical Grammar and Composition We sometimes meet with persons of considerable culture who interlard their talk with slang expressions, but it is safe to assert that they are always persons of coarse natures. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Dickens’s figure gives us a humorously exaggerated picture of Scrooge and his stockings. 349-19 This is a slang expression, used to express incredulity. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Your pinched, starved vocabulary, your lack of polish, your slang expressions, tell him of the trash you have given your precious time to. Pushing to the Front The term "up to you," by which is expressed in a slang way that the person so addressed is expected to do something, is a slang expression borrowed from cards. Stories That Words Tell Us For certain slang expressions used by cadets I am indebted to a member of the corps. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' My mother, who is a great football fan, after following the game for three or four years, learned all the slang expressions typical of football. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball The country is one immense desert, and being directly under the equator, it is—if you will for once allow me to use a slang expression—as hot as a frying-pan. Frank Among The Rancheros On the streets, on the cars, and in public places, loud, coarse voices are heard in light, flippant, slipshod speech, in coarse slang expressions. Pushing to the Front In the second place, there is conclusive evidence to show that, to use the ordinary slang expression of the present day, the celebrated dagger letter was "faked." Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Her slang expressions will be adopted; her loud manners and eccentricities of dress will be imitated; her frivolity and dislike for any of the serious duties of life will prove contagious. Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls He used to be haughty and reserved: now he talks a great deal, uses slang expressions and romps and plays with the children like any ordinary mortal. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 I am—if you will kindly permit me to use a slang expression—an old hand at the business of hunting and trapping, and have accomplishments in which I can not be beaten. Frank Among The Rancheros To ‘work the twig’ is rural English for the craft of Dousterswivel in the ‘Antiquary,’ and perhaps from this comes our slang expression to ‘twig,’ or divine, the hidden meaning of another. Custom and Myth The old woman smiled with grim humor as she found herself quoting the boy's favorite slang expression. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir If it were allowable to use a slang expression, we should style the passages to which we refer effective bosh. Famous Americans of Recent Times A common or garden ox, to use the slang expression. Beasts and Super-Beasts That's just a little slang expression, people use at home, sometimes. It Happened in Egypt It has many slang expressions in it—thieves' argot—but their meaning has been interlined, in parentheses, by the prison authorities'— St. Louis, June 9th 1872. Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. In the matter of "keeping a hotel"—a slang expression which has become a proverb—how well the women in Europe understand their business, and how poorly the women in America understand theirs! Manners and Social Usages Effie, the youngest, is an adept at games, and rather alarms her mother by her habit of using slang expressions and the shortness of her skirts. War-time Silhouettes The most popular slang expression of the day is "to rubberneck," or, more concisely, "to rubber." America To-day, Observations and Reflections Plautus delighted in a noisy dialogue and slang expressions; Terence confines himself to quiet conversation and elegant expressions, for which he was admired by Cicero and Quintilian, and other great critics. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Drusilla pushed the glasses up on her forehead and used a slang expression that almost drew a smile from solemn James. Drusilla with a Million Some slang expressions are of the nature of metaphors and are highly figurative. How to Speak and Write Correctly Everybody went to hear it—everybody played its tunes at their own pianos—everybody quoted it, and adapted it, and used its clever catchwords as the pet fashionable slang expressions of the next three seasons. Philistia "Members of the Mouse-trap never utter slang expressions, never wear live birds-—I mean dead ones-—in their hats." The Long Vacation Also I want to besmirch the rich, by designating them by a slang expression. Moral The slang expression would be "bring the sweet." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 Then he would be taken with fits of coarse gayety; and he related singular anecdotes, intermingled with slang expressions, which Maxence alone could understand. Other People's Money |
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