The phrase " all quiet on the Western Front " has become a colloquial expression meaning stagnation, or lack of visible change, in any context.

Although commonly used in a colloquial and less-violent sense, the phrase is particularly associated with a specific sociopathic culture-bound syndrome in Malaysian culture.

The term legal technicality is a casual or colloquial phrase referring to a technical aspect of law.

phrase « Je ne sais quoi » — " I do not know what of relative clause, e. g., ' it is '" remaining in colloquial speech as a fossilized phrase

It is this gown which gives rise to the colloquial reference to Queen's Counsel as silks and to the phrase taking silk referring to their appointment.

Ritola's career inspired a phrase into colloquial Finnish.

In Panama the phrase mita y mita ( a colloquial contraction of mitad y mitad in this case with the stress on the first syllable mi ) literally " half and half " refers to both " going Dutch " and to splitting the check equally.

While the phrase is colloquial (" cop " being slang for police officer ) and primarily used in the United States media, it has become the most popular name for the phenomenon.

* A colloquial phrase for somebody of high physical attractiveness, see Bombshell

" I'm buggered " or " I'll be buggered " is used as a colloquial phrase in the UK ( and often in New Zealand and Australia as well ) to denote or feign surprise at an unexpected ( or possibly unwanted ) occurrence.

The colloquial phrase " to teach someone a lesson ", means to punish or scold a person for a mistake they have made in order to ensure that they do not make the same mistake again.

A common colloquial alternative to the first-person-plural pronoun nós " we " is the noun phrase a gente, which formally takes verbs and possessives of the third person singular ( or the expression " da gente ").

Although there have been a number of prominent lavender marriages in history, the phrase itself came into colloquial use during the 1920s, when the imposition of morality clauses into the contracts of Hollywood actors caused some closeted stars to enter into marriages of convenience to protect their public reputations and preserve their careers.

Ah Long ( derived from the Cantonese phrase ' 大耳窿 ' ( Jyutping: daai6 ji5 lung1 ) is a colloquial term for illegal loan sharks in Malaysia and Singapore.

" Jobsworth " is a British colloquial word deriving from the phrase " I can't do that, it's more than my job's worth ", meaning it might lose the person their job: taking the initiative and performing an action, and perhaps in the process breaking a rule, is beyond what the person feels their job description allows.

The title phrase has also been used as a colloquial term in the UK & Ireland to mean a " dishevelled appearance ," spoken as " You look like the wreck of the Hesperus!

The term comes from a colloquial phrase of understatement.

The phrase itself, however, is still a common American colloquial expression.

A more colloquial phrase that means the same thing as similarity invariance is " basis independence ", since a matrix can be regarded as a linear operator, written in a certain basis, and the same operator in a new base is related to one in the old base by the conjugation, where is the transformation matrix to the new base.

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" " This collection, like all of Wright's book, combines familiar, colloquial phrases -- the daily lingo you hear everywhere -- with the sudden sharpness of a phrase you've never heard anywhere, but that sounds just as familiar, just as inevitable.

The phrase has also found its way into the colloquial language of many non-Arabic peoples, such as Persians, Turks ( who say " maşallah "), Kurds, Armenians, Bosniaks, Albanians and Muslims and Urdu-speakers of South Asia ( who say " Masha ' allah "), and some of the peoples of the Balkans who once lived under Turkish rule, including some who are not of the Islamic faith ( Serbians, who say " mašala ").

In the colloquial, one can say that a person's kung fu is good in cooking, or that someone has kung fu in calligraphy ; saying that a person possesses kung fu in an area implies skill in that area, which they have worked hard to develop.

* Andrew and Janet Persson with Ahmad Hussein, 1979, Sudanese Colloquial Arabic for beginners, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Horsleys Green, High Wycombe, United Kingdom: This book is a good introduction to Sudanese colloquial Arabic as spoken in Khartoum.

Valley of the squinting windows has become a colloquial term, particularly in Ireland, for a society obsessed with providing neighbours and peers with a good perception of one's personal matters.

It is also a good idea to know whether the game dictionary includes colloquial and contemporary words.

His favourite themes can be described as the inner fight between good and evil in man, moving from lovely images of paradise to the terrible torments of hell, but with specific noble, philosophical insight ( however, he sometimes used colloquial language too ), enriched on occasion by modest humour, arising from a critical view of human society.

Sucker hole is a colloquial term referring to a short spate of good weather that " suckers " sailors into leaving port just in time for a storm to resume at full force.

The Board of Juha Vainio Fund justified its decision saying " Maija Vilkkumaa's texts present good colloquial language " and that " the lyrics are a classical example of how modern language works in songs ".

Joss more recently has also become a colloquial expression for good luck, as in Rip Mattsen's Good Joss Means Good Luck ( 1974 ), the first textual documentation of this usage.

A common colloquial usage would have reality mean " perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward reality ," as in " My reality is not your reality.

Seven instances were accompanied with glosses that were variations on " all correct " such as " oll korrect " or " ole kurreck ," but five appeared with no accompanying explanation, suggesting that the word was expected to be well known to readers and possibly in common colloquial use at the time.

The word is by origin a diminutive of " jock ", the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name " John ," which is also used generically for " boy, or fellow " ( compare " Jack ", " Dick "), at least since 1529.

Ochlocracy is synonymous in meaning and usage to the modern, informal term " Mobocracy ," which emerged from a much more recent colloquial etymology.

" Wife cake " is the translation of lou po beng from Cantonese, and although the meaning is " wife ," the literal translation is " old lady cake ," paralleling the colloquial usage of " old lady " for " wife " in American English.

* " Anglo-American ," colloquial term for an English-speaking American ( as opposed to Spanish-speaking or Hispanic Americans )

Former Beatle George Harrison referenced this colloquial usage in writing his song " Wreck of the Hesperus ," included on his 1987 album Cloud Nine.

In his unique " Fables in Slang ," which purveyed not so much slang as the American colloquial vernacular, Ade pursued an effectively genial satire notable for its scrupulous objectivity.

Various Aeta groups in northern Luzon are known as " Pugut " or " Pugot ," a name designated by their Ilocano-speaking neighbors, and which is the colloquial term for those with darker complexions.

Other colloquial names for spring cold snaps include " Dogwood winter ," “ Whippoorwill winter ,” " Locust winter ," and “ Redbud winter .” The different names are based on what is blooming in particular regions during the typical spring cold snaps.

*, Mongolian literally for " gas horse ," semantically " wind horse ," colloquial meaning soul.

Finally, the wider Clan possesses not only a colloquial, everyday " localized " language, but also a more formal " ancient " or " spirit language ," used to converse with ancestors and understood by every Clan member, anywhere.

However, " the auld Queen ," a colloquial term, may refer to precedence rather than age.