Sentence examples for expression that means from inspiring English sources

"This is cow work," he said, using a Cantonese expression that means grinding menial labor.

"Being sent to Coventry," she explains, is an English expression that means, essentially, getting frozen out.

"Oh, that's just an expression that means things are bad," Miss Cook said.

Then, using an Arabic expression that means "if God is willing," he said, "Inshallah, tonight I will be home".

She often began her proclamations with the words, "In the life" -- an Irish expression that means "in this life".

" 'Calm your tits,' " Yasha, an eighteen-year-old from Crown Heights, said, citing an expression that means "Calm down".

That night was First Thursday, an expression that meant nothing to me but, by the look of the other revelers, suggested it was time to go out and party.

By late 1862, he was a full-time newspaperman in Virginia City, and on Feb. 3, 1863, he decided to sign an article with the name "Mark Twain," an old river expression that meant "two fathoms".

Computers, then, can see what we miss: the tiny nuances in facial expression that mean the difference between a faked grimace and a real bout of toe-curling ouchiness.

"It's small potatoes... small potatoes" -- one of her wonderful motherly Greek expressions that means just like it sounds, small stuff.

— for "kuuki yomenai" — a popular expression that literally means "can't read the air" or "clueless".