Sentence examples for general parlance from inspiring English sources

Not to be confused with the rest of TriBeCa, a k a the Triangle Below Canal, a neighborhood that historians say entered the general parlance around 1970.

"Thirsty" applied to a British public figure usually means heavy drinking; "tired and emotional" (a term that has moved from the pages of Private Eye, a satirical magazine, into general parlance) means visibly drunk.

In general parlance the term is used synonymously with zero gravity and weightlessness, but the prefix micro indicates accelerations equivalent to one-millionth (10−6) of the force of gravity at Earth's surface.

I recently found myself ravenous in Middlesbrough town centre on a Saturday night after a work assignment, and was directed by a zealous local friend towards what is by far Teesside's most popular fast food – a 'parmesan' (from 'chicken parmesan'), shortened to 'parmo' in general parlance.

In general parlance, the term child could apply to any person under the age of 18 years, while the term learner does not imply any particular age group at all.

(In case you've been hiding in Osama bin Laden's cave, MILF is an acronym that stands for "Mom I'd Like to F---." In general parlance, it is a synonym for "hot mom").

For someone to be "up north," in the general Soviet parlance, meant his having been arrested and sent off to one of the gulag destinations for his political activities — or, more likely and pertinently, the looseness of his lips, the pointless frivolity of his speeches.

In the fall of 2008, Mr. Barofsky, a Democrat, was nominated by the Bush administration to become the independent lawyer inside the Treasury Department (special inspector general, in Washington parlance) responsible for supervising the implementation of the divisive Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.

In the parlance of Republicans, the "generals on the ground" have now spoken.

This September the United Nations secretary general will convene what is called, in UN parlance, a "high level segment" of the general assembly to discuss "the rule of law at the national and international levels".

And third, that soldiers were needlessly sent to slaughter by unfeeling and cloddish generals — "lions led by donkeys" in the popular parlance.