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Example sentences for: parlance

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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.
Although the term value-subtracted has been used in specialized contexts for some years, it is acquiring traction in public parlance largely because of dislocations in the former Communist bloc.
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.
Hard currencies aren't pegged to metals any longer, but in casual political and macroeconomic parlance, soft-money people are those who take an optimistic and permissive attitude toward control of the money supply, and hard-money people are those who take a grouchy and restrictive one.
' Moreover, some of the older students addressed by the priest in the movie are past childhood, though in priestly parlance anyone, even a nonagenarian, may be called a child.