Sentences with phrase «by slang»

If you come across as negative, if your ability to carry on a conversation is limited, or if your vocabulary is punctuated by slang, acronyms, and too many fillers such as «umm» or «like» or «you know» it's not going to make the best impression.
Meanwhile, Hackman's Luthor, aided by slang - talking surfer nephew Jon Cryer, creates a new super-rival: Nuclear Man, who locks horns with Reeve against a variety of rear - projection backdrops.

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«Wallop» was a slang term for beer, and «Codd's wallop» was used by beer drinkers to mean weak or gassy beer.
Look no further than the company's social media accounts — manned by digital creatives from MRM McCann — which promote IHOP with more tossed - off personality, humor and internet slang than your average American brand.
After the Bard, the earliest printed reference appears to be a 1994 Globe and Mail article by John Bentley Mays (in which the author suggests a police horse might enjoy the watery treat) but he is clearly indulging in the slang of the day, not coining a neologism.
The added slang includes adulting (describes acting like a grown up), «bye Felicia (a dismissive term used to bid someone farewell), cuck (a derogatory term for an inadequate man), Hey Girl (a reference to a Ryan Gosling meme), Netflix and chill (the act of watching Netflix with an expectation of sexual activity), and rickrolling (when you troll someone on the internet by linking to Rick Astley's hit song «Never Going to Give You Up»).
The slang term for arbitrage, the simultaneous buying and selling of the same asset in different markets in order to take advantage of different spreads offered by brokers.
«In Internet slang, a troll (/ ˈtroʊl /, / ˈtrɒl /) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off - topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on - topic discussion.»
In Internet slang, a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off - topic messages in an online community, either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response.
However, offering slang and fashionable jargon as «renewed» preaching, celebrating the secular embrace of certain Christian symbols (i.e., use of crosses as warnings at highway danger points, putting Christ in Christmas, etc.), or reducing the Gospel to the lowest common denominator of acceptable faith and ethic will hardly be received by a serious world as adequate penance.
The mass of collateral phenomena, morbid or healthy, with which the various religious phenomena must be compared in order to understand them better, forms what in the slang of pedagogics is termed «the apperceiving mass» by which we comprehend them.
The fillings were wrapped in the bread or were served in bowls accompanied by torn up bread called Buss - Up - Shut, which is slang for «burst up shirt,» because the bread resembles torn up cloth.
The controversial midfielder, who joined QPR in August after being placed on the transfer list by Newcastle following a public slanging match with the club's board, has now said his departure was inevitable after he led a dressing - room revolt over an argument over a bonus structure.
The owners hope to have A Toda Madre (slang for «awesome») up and running by July.
I'm told that slang for the health care reform law favored by the right was in fact used during the closed - door discussion.
«Blind drunk» was Prohibition - era slang for damage caused by drinking grain alcohol that had been cut with methanol by unscrupulous bootleggers.
By comparing the genetic sequences of the mutant and normal flies, the researchers found that the forgetful flies had an inactive copy of a gene that he and his Chilean collaborators dubbed Volado (Vol)-- South American slang for absentminded.
The original British skinheads - named for their shaved noggins - were actually influenced by Jamaica's rude boys, a slang term from the 1960s for street toughs.
For those readers not familiar with American slang the «preppy» look is defined by stripes and colors, equestrian clothing, plaid shirts, field jackets, and nautical - themed accessories.
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By doing this, SNAP Interactive CEO Cliff Lerner told GDI this had resulted in a 43 % decrease in the use of slang, spelling errors and offensive content.
Blue balls is a slang term for the condition of temporary fluid congestion in the testicles accompanied by testicular pain, caused by prolonged sexual arousal in the human male without ejaculation.
Oh, by Nsa slang word for the intricate scrollwork above the top service.
An argot (English: / ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ /; from French argot [a ʁ ˈ ɡ o] «slang») is a secret language used by various groups — .
Military slang, or informal military terms, are colloquial terms used commonly by military personnel - often as abbreviations or derivations of the NATO Firstly, let me say how much Brian and I enjoyed our tour with Vinarium.
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Written by Etan Cohen (with creative input from David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio), the screenplay for Men in Black III has some outdated jokes and slang which, given the film's premise, might've worked had they not been so distracting.
Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.
By the end, everyone has learned the necessary important life lesson, the audience has learned Renaissance slang for female gonads, and a solo song by Paul Rudd has brought everything to a close with a less than rousing finalBy the end, everyone has learned the necessary important life lesson, the audience has learned Renaissance slang for female gonads, and a solo song by Paul Rudd has brought everything to a close with a less than rousing finalby Paul Rudd has brought everything to a close with a less than rousing finale.
All of it is written — overly peppered with her unique insertion of pop - culture references and strange slangby Cody with a sense of detached irony that feels dishonest, especially when director Karyn Kusama tries to inject subtle bits of humanity into it, which in turn feel dishonest because of the overall tone.
Speaking a largely invented (by Burgess) slang, Alex happens to be into Beethoven (a sly reference to Wagner - loving Nazis?)
Audiences will be shocked by the use of modern slang.
The film's comparison points are clear — a little bit of «Scum,» a little bit of «A Prophet «-- but it sets itself apart by making Jack O'Connell «s central character Eric (who is «starred up,» prison slang for being a high - risk violent offender) a hair - trigger, emotionally fucked psychopath, and by putting him in the same wing as his father Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), a long - time lifer who's the right - hand man to prison kingpin Spencer (Peter Ferdinando).
The original screenplay by Diablo Cody ricochets with askew dialogue, a fantasy of youth slang gone wild that borders on precious and contrived.
There are some cute one liners, mostly delivered by heavily accented and slang mangling co-pilot geek, Ben Jabituya (Fisher Stevens) some creative action and a lovely homage to the Three Stooges.
Shot sequentially and on location in a Victorian prison in Belfast, with a shaky but minutely calibrated camera style, in at times barely intelligible British prison slang (which actually bolsters the primal impact of the film), Starred Up is no mere depiction but a jolting immersion in the claustrophobic mix of violence and vulnerability that is prison life, and it's powered by Jack O'Connell's riveting performance as violent criminal Eric Love.
Lines that might have come off as ludicrous seem no more (or less) alien than the slang generated by teenagers as they try to construct an adult world distinct from the one their parents dangle in front of them.
Chi - Raq — a slang term used by some residents of Chicago's south side to refer to the city's war - zone - like gun violence — is a modern retelling of Aristophanes's 411 BC play Lysistrata.
The movie is awful, from the script's blending of Southern charm and Jewish slang, to the over-the-top performances by its actors, but when an internet posting begins a rumor that star Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) should garner an Oscar nomination come awards time, the film's publicist (John Michael Higgins) goes into overdrive, generating even more buzz about possible nominations for its other two stars, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer) and Callie Webb (Parker Posey).
Pecha Kucha [6](from Japanese slang for chit - chat) is a high - energy form of show - and - tell that has become popular in the last decade, hosted by community groups in cities around the world.
Educators can capitalize on adolescents» deep need to be steeped in rhythms, words, actions, values, and emotions by bringing these elements — found in song, slang, dialect, dance, and technology — into classroom learning experiences.
Back then, you were either a Ford, Chevy or MOPAR fan, the latter «MOPAR» nomenclature standing for «Motor Parts» before evolving into slang for anything produced by Chrysler / Plymouth / Dodge.
But Fingersmith (a slang term for a pickpocket) is not a Victorian retread by any means.
Drawing from David W. Maurer's Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern (1955), Meloy equips the whiz mob with authentic pickpocket slang that effectually functions as coded speech — a detail sure to delight kids enamored by the clandestine.
Kiffe Kiffe Demain was published in France in 2004, when she was 19; it was published in English this summer (as a paperback original) having been translated from French into English by Sarah Adams, who provides a useful glossary of Arabic and French slang for those words that defy direct translation.
Yankee market most of the time is used by non-US residents who call these Forex markets, and it is directed to the slang term that was used to name the Americans â $ «a Yankee.
It was written by David W. Maurer, who was a professor of linguistics, and used his skills to analyze the slang of the underworld.
«Puppy mill» is not a legally defined term, it is slang invented by the «animal rights» extremists to denigrate any and all breeders — small or large, standard or substandard.
Perhaps the best definition was coined by Bernard Share in Slanguage: The Dictionary of Irish Slang: «Craic - the particular sense of esprit produced by the confluence of drink, romance and music».
This glossary of surfer slang was pulled together by Cristina, the community manager from BookSurfCamps.com, a themed travel website offering a vast collection of surf camps and holidays.
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