Sentence examples for his lingo from inspiring English sources

"I think they're going to pay eight times Ebitda," Mr. Fredston-Hermann remembers saying, not quite believing that this attractive young woman with a short skirt and looking, as he said, very fashion forward, was talking his lingo.

That's what the guy says but doesn't say As he tosses his lingo at your apartment-dweller ears, A bit bemused, a touch impatient, After the spring melt has wrecked something, stopped something, After the hard wind has lifted something away, After the mystery has plugged the pipes, That rattle coughs up something sinister.

In conversation, when he is not delivering his standup routine or appearing on the HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm," he tends to organize things into bowls: in his lingo, a potentially dangerous situation is "a big bowl of trouble"; an off-color joke, "a big bowl of wrong".

Later on he wondered, "Can I get two kokolets that can dance better than my dancers?" If it seemed like D'Banj, one of the quickest-rising stars in Africa, has a one-track mind — kokolets, in his lingo, are beautiful women — that wasn't far from the truth.

Although his circus lingo is accurate and his empathy and fair-mindedness toward the multitude of players is evident throughout, "The Circus Fire" is an eerily narrow-gauge book, with a thicket of victims' names, telescoped paragraphs and summary jottings, often staccato in tone, like combat reporting.

So potent was his art that former colleagues in MI5 and MI6 began to adopt his invented lingo of "lamplighters", "moles", "ferrets", "pavement artists", and the rest.

His corporate lingo is laced with sports metaphors and analogies.

In his snowboard lingo -- describing great training sessions as sick runs -- Klug also answers e-mail messages from his followers.

The New Yorker, January 1 , 1938P. 11 A cab driver tells in his own lingo how he was stopped on Fifty-second Street.

By John Tucker Battle and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, January 1 , 1938P. 11 A cab driver tells in his own lingo how he was stopped on Fifty-second Street.

"The French phrase 'guerre de nerfs' " -- war of nerves -- "of 25 years ago has since come to be referred to as 'the cold war,' " he wrote, linking his own lingo of cool and hot with the language of international politics.