In a sport that has all but lost the power to shock, the sight of a remote-control drone trailing the flag of "Greater Albania" – a concept that Albanians insist is never used in modern parlance – over the pitch was the precursor to half an hour of chaos and confusion before Martin Atkinson called the game off.
You might think, then, that I'd have serious beef with the way OCD has slipped into common parlance over the last few years.
The suspension comes after four days of discussions among church leaders — "primates," in church parlance — over the Episcopal Church's position on gay marriage in relation to the position of the broader Anglican Communion.
He became a full-fledged member, or in black Greek parlance, "crossed over," in April.
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.
Snowboarders tend to be male and in their teens and 20s, and many favor fashion -- or "steez," in their parlance -- over function, said Marc Loebe, who owns the Boardroom, a snow and skate shop in Jackson, Wyo.
It is an issue still bound to cause huge tensions between Iraq's Kurds and Arabs ("Iraq's two nations", in Kurdish parlance), especially over the disputed city of Kirkuk (see article).
Bill Clinton's propensity for taking mulligans, golfing parlance for do-overs, which are not strictly permitted under the rules, is well documented.
What this means in Sequoia parlance: Botha will take over "more responsibility for strategy, for team composition, for fundraising — including spending more time with limited partners and helping decide when do we raise, the size of the funds, the composition of our LP base," he says.
What this means in Sequoia parlance: Botha will take over "more responsibility for strategy, for team composition, for fundraising — including spending more time with limited partners and helping decide when do we raise, the size of the funds, the composition of our LP base," he says.
The first article I ever "sold", to use the common parlance, I wrote over the course of a jobless summer (not for lack of trying to get employment).
