Sentence examples for the local parlance from inspiring English sources

In the local parlance, they had been "re-hatted".

Also known in the local parlance as the Green Coat.

I am, as the local parlance has it, "stoked".

In the local parlance the Americans are known as dogs and Mr Karzai is called a dog-washer.

I have been told this is the local parlance for both red and green, but am not sure.

Visitors to the town were infrequent and vaguely unwelcome; the men who drove in from the Eastern cities each winter to hunt were "flatlanders," in the local parlance.

And so she found herself and the writhing public E.B.W. seated side by side near the front of the long church — the "Congo," in local parlance — while preliminary organ music fell about them and the rows filled up with stomping, de-muffling mourners.

Nearly 20 years after being bought by the hotelier André Balazs and revived from near-dereliction, the Chateau (in local parlance) is enjoying the peak of its own celebrity.

At best, they are conducted provisionally, or "on parole", in local parlance: the Ukrainian seller takes the money, leaving the (usually Russian) buyer to sort out the paperwork.Even sending documents by mail is tricky: Ukraine does not accept mail from the new Crimean post office.

I will say this: At a time when Brits are learning to live without public libraries (not to mention jobs) as a result of budget cuts, they are enthused by this lavish ceremony that will see the daughter of millionaires (a commoner in local parlance) wed to the helicopter pilot who will one day head the sprawling enterprise royals call the Firm.

Last week, the Dólar Blue, as the illegal rate is known in local parlance, reached a high of 6.80 pesos (it has since declined to around 6.40 pesos).