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Example sentences for: parlance

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There is rather a double standard, first the so-called American Standard that textbooks try to inculcate, the dignified parlance of discourse, and then the related but divergent American Wit, the standard of ingenuity, which trafficks freely in analogy, pun, and portmanteau.
Thus, in modern parlance, when a person goes off half cocked (or at half cock ), he or she is not in control of the situation.
Take the verb cut, which in common ranch parlance has two meanings, the first as stated above being `castrate.
In aviation parlance, to hold some action always means to stop what you are doing and thus to go around in a landing situation; but in ordinary English hold can also mean to continue what you are doing and thus to land in such a situation.
In American theater parlance, the term gag is used frequently to differentiate funny lines in a movie script or stage comedy from mere jokes that are exchanged indiscriminately in everyday life.