Sentence examples for was code for from inspiring English sources

"Green sweets" was code for cannabis.

Each was code for academic and/or social segregation.

HIRSCHBERG: Yeah, it was code for "It's too Jewish".

Advocates argued that some language was code for reducing treatment.

To them, Larousse was code for La Russie.

To the Republicans, "fee" was code for "tax".

Police said "quid" was code for a thousand pounds.

"Originally, it was code for Diego Rivera [the Mexican artist and husband of Frida Kahlo].

Perhaps the name was code for George H. W. Bush, erstwhile president.

He'd just been placed on gardening leave, which we knew was code for being frog-marched.

The "red form" was code for a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) order.