Sentence examples for casual parlance from inspiring English sources
Now, inspired by impressive results in a few well-financed programs, states including Delaware, South Carolina and Tennessee have jumped on the B.M.I. bandwagon, turning the reports -- in casual parlance, obesity report cards -- into a new rite of childhood.
Still, it's good to find Allen redevoted to a form — the silly short, or "casual," in New Yorker parlance — that few besides him and Perelman have mastered.
The McKinsey Quarterly agrees, stating in its "Fast-food fight" report that "growth will come in the middle ground: the 'fast-casual' area in industry parlance".
In 2013-14, for example, investigators found that nearly 90percentt of DraftKings' customers lost money, suggesting a major gulf between the casual players — or "minnows," in betting parlance — and the professional players known as sharks.
Less than 24 hours before Aaron Hernandez "hung it up," an all too common and casual turn of phrase in prison parlance, a group of prisoner-rights advocates held a rally at the Massachusetts State House.
"The 'sawbuck' theory has the advantage of a clearer line of plausible transmission, but even with that theory, there are relatively few examples until late in this same period (as a casual slang term, it likely had a long gestation in common parlance before it began to see the light of print)," Potter explained.
The other day, Jonathan Neman, the C.E.O. of the fast-casual chain Sweetgreen, called a meeting at the company's Los Angeles "treehouse" (headquarters, in the parlance of Ray Kroc) to finalize the rollout of a new menu.
In their parlance: freedom.
In taxonomic parlance, V.
In their parlance, they "own the customer".
