Sentence examples for * parlance in from inspiring English sources

In the common parlance, in fact, he's called a dealer.

At that moment, Der Klassiker became common parlance in European football.

No hammy key changes, His productions were always, to use session musician parlance, in the pocket.

And yet I can't think of even one Chinese word or phrase that has become "common parlance in English" recently.

He has always been in favour of harm reduction, he says, a phrase in common parlance in drug addiction.

Both Theodore Roosevelt and Churchill desired the neutering of the "feeble-minded", as was the parlance in Edwardian days.

The body may also, in its weakened state, be poisoned mildly (or in extreme cases, not so mildly) by impurities congenors in alcohol-research parlance--in alcoholic beverages and the mixers that accompany them.

A simple internet search on the phrase suggests that the metaphor of 'thinking outside the box' is common in the parlance, both in academic literature and in practice.

However, to regard Williams as merely one in 15 today (or in modern parlance, one in 22) is to rival a Dalek for sentiment.

Relatedly, how does a speaker's cognizance of grammar (her 'competence,' in Chomskyan parlance) function in her linguistic 'performance' — i.e., in the actual production or comprehension of an utterance?

Voters pick candidates by poking out pencil-point sized holes -- or chads, in election parlance -- in the ballot.