Sentence examples for in popular parlance from inspiring English sources

The roster of those probed includes American International Group, ACE, Hartford Financial Services Group –in popular parlance, The Hartford and Munich American Risk Partners.

Meanwhile, an older German word, "fluchthelferin" (or "refugee helper") has reappeared in popular parlance.

The shoes — and the company — became known in popular parlance simply as Vans.

Because in popular parlance 'immigrant' means anyone that is black, brown or foreign-looking.

In popular parlance, Epicureanism thus means devotion to pleasure, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style.

Yet those reservations could not prevent "genocide" from becoming the speech-act Lemkin intended in popular parlance.

The author highlighted the phrase in the book's preface and epilogue, and many reviewers quoted it, thus propelling it into popular parlance.

Private Nikolaus Seitz is German, a Fritz in the popular parlance of the time, but he could just as easily be a British Tommy.

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

Unfortunately the life of the average intelligence officer (IO) - or "spy", in the popular parlance - whether he works for MI5 or its sister service, MI6, is much more mundane.

But the Express's apoplectic fury reflects the fact that the word immigrant in common popular parlance doesn't mean someone who is subject to immigration control – it can mean refugees, asylum seekers and people like my son, a third generation British passport holder.