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.
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.
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?
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.
In their parlance: freedom.
In their parlance, they "own the customer".
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.
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.
Lena, the sweet-and-sulky heroine of "Beautiful Creatures," the film adapted from the young-adult novel of the same title, is a witch — a caster, in the parlance of her kind — who can, by a glance, shatter glass or summon a tempest or, when the spirit moves her, capture the heart of a hunky young man.
