Sentence examples for accepted parlance from inspiring English sources

By Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, June 6 , 1970 P. 28Recently the member of a group of young couples proposed that they invent a catchy but nebulous idiom, use the phrase casually & without explanation everywhere they went & see how long it took before the phrase came back to them as accepted parlance.

But its basic insights are now part of the accepted parlance of the language of baseball conversation.

This oxymoron has come into common parlance, as accepted as George Carlin's famous "jumbo shrimp".

By the time the Gospels were circulated, it was both common parlance and accepted doctrine.

The idea that workers need to be protected from foreign competitors - "national preference" in modern FN parlance - was accepted by all French parties until World War Two.

For a petition to be accepted - known in Supreme Court parlance as "granting cert" - four of the nine justices must vote to take the case and hear oral arguments.

All of them have, in evangelical parlance, "accepted Christ" and have been summoned by Jesus to the Rapture, a precursor to the Apocalypse.

To be accepted, the company had to be, in Army parlance, "a responsible contractor," which required an examination of its financial soundness, transport capabilities, past performance and compliance with the law and government contracting regulations.

It was only after "toddler" became common shoppers' parlance that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage.

It is, of course, a generally accepted given that political correctness has, to partake of the parlance, gone mad – and it is also generally accepted that this shall lead to a country overrun by hairy women and state-funded terrorists.

In plain parlance, and in the context of Northern Ireland politics, what it actually translates as is that the government has accepted that the UVF's cessation of violence is fully intact and permanent.