Sentence examples for my lingo from inspiring English sources
You have to hand it to the old buffer, though: he had my lingo down to a tee".
It was difficult at first realizing that not everybody knows my lingo and I have to ask a lot people in a different way all the time, and I definitely value that I now feel comfortable being like, Hey, I don't get that, can you tone it down a bit for me and really break it down so I can grasp what you're saying and we can move forward?
Just put on some smart trousers: corduroy trousers with thin wales (which are the corduroy ridges – oh yeah, I know my corduroy lingo), for example, or a lovely tweedy pair (my preference), and this applies to ladies and men.
This is one of the reasons I decided to be a part of My Grandmother's Lingo, where I collaborated with SBS and two other young Indigenous Australians to make an animation which helps spread knowledge of Marra.
MR: [laughs] There you go! JC: [laughs] I look at the sixteen days that we didn't have any government and I think my old friend Lingo the Drifter in Colorado used to have what he called his "Dormant Braincell Research Foundation Speech".
(Don't you love learning all this insider shrinky-dink lingo?) In my practice I will see four or five patients in my case load of around 30, give or take, for $75 if they are just out of school, or up to their ears in debt, or waiting on tables before joining their rightful place in the cast of Pretty Little Liars.
For my debut novel, Brixton Rock, published in 1999, I wasn't sure whether to make use of the lingo that my friends and I used in early 1980s Brixton.
I spent my days in the lingo — "hot turf," "dead turf," "renewal turf," "quotas".
"You had to understand some of the physics lingo, but my father is a physicist, so I had grown up with physics talk," Alyea says.
The words "center of gravity" came to me, secondhand track-and-field lingo from my vain attempt to place out of P.E. that spring.
