Sentence examples similar to speak code for from inspiring English sources

For those who don't speak code, I am Jewish.

Birders, alarmed at the loss of once-common understory species like Red-eyed vireo and American woodcock, are calling for the management of the white deer population before more birds are lost -- "management," in this case, being humane-speak code for "hunting".

For the past 13 years, I have sung in the church choir (I finally did learn almost every hymn), and after our Thursday night rehearsal many of us go out for "fellowship" -- which in Episcopalian speak, is code for eating and drinking.

Political intimidation has scarred many in Haiti, and with party observers outnumbering voters at many polling sites, the most forthcoming citizens would only speak in code: about voting for "the young one" (Mr. Martelly); or "my wife" (Mirlande Manigat, a constitutional scholar seeking to become the first woman elected to lead Haiti).

This is code speak for cowardice".

Il toujours speak en code.

Designers tend to speak in code.

They speak in code and rarely meet.

Very often they speak in code designed to stump parents.

I won't speak in code or vague language.

In fashion speak, intellectual is also code for sexlessness, which suggests that there is little appeal to comporting oneself as a smart person and that all men respond to all women as if the men were Howard Stern.