Sentence examples for speak easy from inspiring English sources
"speak easy" is a correct and usable expression in written English
It is an idiom meaning to speak softly, more cautiously, or quietly. For example, "The students whispered late into the night, trying to speak easy so they wouldn't awaken their parents."
"Speak easy," is one of them, enforced by bartenders when necessary.
I think people were quite sad when we went but I expect it was a relief – they could speak easy at last without me putting it in my column or books.
"Body and Soul," with its vintage blues and vaudeville selections, has a similar period quality to Ms. Bufford's 2012 show, "Speak Easy," a brassy anthology of Prohibition-era songs, but now the emotional scope is much broader.
"Speak Easy" is a thoroughly researched informal history of pop during the Prohibition era in which Ms. Bufford is joined by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, New York's premier vintage jazz band.
And now there's Carole J. Bufford, a sizzling cabaret performer who in her show "Speak Easy" at the Metropolitan Room offers the fullest realization I can remember of a 1920s girl gone wild.
Speak Easy will air on BBC3 later in the year but on Tuesday and Wednesday she and the co-host Kurt Braunohler will do two free "work-in-progress" shows at the Jam House, in which they will interview the alter-egos of a host of character comedians.
The door is reinforced, speak-easy style, to frustrate burglars.
Tucked into a nondescript office building, Lake Superior Brewing is a bit like a speak-easy.
"But most of the other speak-easy places in the city try way too hard.
Are they going to join the spontaneous Starbucks speak-easy moment?
"JOE SENT ME: AN HISTORIC SPEAK-EASY TOUR," Greenwich Village and SoHo.
