Miriam, in her true parlance (even though she'd been told the story ten times), said she had no idea that Marilyn Monroe fell in love with a 23-year-old boy.
Raisman could jump higher, tumble and twist her body more times in the air, and stick her landings (gymnastic parlance for landing with feet together and staying put on the ground) with more accuracy and precision than her competitors.
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?
If my daughter really does want to go to a college that has "denied" her as admissions parlance has it, she can reapply as a transfer student.
One was her advice to me, a reader who had not only lost her faith, but in the parlance of Born Agains, her testimony – her love for God and desire to share the good Word.
My dad spent 35 years as a meatcutter at a grocery store while my maternal grandmother Grandma Flossie worked her whole life as a housekeeper, or in the parlance of her times, a cleaning lady.
The next week, after an Aerobox class, which complements the Aeroimpact class with skipping rope and shadowboxing, Teresa Misagal, 44, a restaurant manager who lives in Williamsburg, told me that her 14 years of training with Mr. Olajide had, in his parlance, "sleekified" her.
Her home became a showroom (or a three-dimensional collage, in the curators' preferred parlance) and her studio turned into a shop.
His wife has died in middle age — she's "copped her whack," in the parlance of his part of Scotland — but he's hardly alone in that.
