But in the industries that pay the highest salaries, state firms dominate.A new shorthand has entered common parlance: guojin mintui, meaning the state [sector] advances and the private retreats.
In tunnel parlance, he was "engrossed," meaning he was unable to also watch for trains.
My mother claims 36 siblings, most of them -- in the Jamaican parlance -- "outdoor children," meaning same father, different mother.
"There will be no smoke in the neighborhood!" he would announce, meaning, in traditional parlance, that no kitchen but ours would be working on those occasions.
In the darkness, Mr. Leckie walks his students through the last drill of the day, what is known in transit parlance as "train-to-benchwall," meaning from the train to the narrow walkway that runs along the side of subway tunnels.
In auction parlance, this is called celebrity provenance, meaning someone famous once owned or notably appeared with the vehicle — and it has been known to incite bidders to irrational exuberance.
But that made it obvious to market participants that PNC had, to use Wall Street parlance, brought S.& P. over the wall — meaning the bank had told the rating agency about its intentions ahead of time.
In English, the word "Levantine" is not complimentary: an Italian complained that it meant some sort of traficante and of course in Marxist parlance it comes over as "comprador class", meaning some grasping foreign element that would cooperate with the local feudal powers, semi-enslave the peasants and sell goods cheap to the capitalist west.
In H&M parlance, this is known as "the A spot," meaning primo territory.
The chief tenet of the New Criticism was that you could pry meaning out of any sort of mysterious parlance, especially if Ezra Pound had written it.
