But honestly, by that stage, roughly forty minutes into an epic speech scheduled for twenty, my shorthand had given up, and I'd decided to wait for the full transcript.
'Mr. Ten Percent' Behind the scenes, American officials had nicknamed the general "Mr. Ten Percent," shorthand for their suspicions about the way he handled contracts.
Starbucks, in more ways than one, is shorthand for "everywhere".
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution, the new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, is a visual accompaniment to Pepys's one and a quarter million (mostly shorthand) words.
Per stoner lore, the numbers four and twenty as shorthand for marijuana use originated with a group of high-school students in San Rafael, California: one day in 1971, at 4 20 P.M., they set out to find an abandoned cannabis field using a treasure map.
Medvedev's rhetoric is a giveaway to how, at least in some quarters, the BRIC concept first put forward in 2003 by analysts at investment bank Goldman Sachs has evolved from one of economic shorthand to one of political posturing, primarily against American superpower dominance.
But in the public's mind, it is still "ground zero" -- as in, "When are they ever going to build something at ground zero?" Or as in, "ground zero mosque," the shorthand reference for the Islamic community center planned two blocks to the north.
Take a signaling game with 4 states, or worlds, W = {w1, w2, w3, w4} where the indices give the exact/maximal number of children that came to our party, and four messages F = {'one','two ,'three'fourour'}, as shorthand for 'n children came to our party'.
