The phrase RTFM may have first appeared in print in 1979 on the Table of Contents page of the LINPACK Users ' Guide in the form: " R. T. F. M.

But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.

A particularly galling phrase was `` O.K., Panyotis, we have time at our disposal ''.

I use the phrase advisedly because there was something positively indecent about our relationship.

She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.

In Senator Joseph McCarthy's phrase, it was the most unheard-of thing ever heard of.

What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.

It was an automatic phrase ; ;

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

But for even the most active citizen the formal basis of his political activity was the invitation issued to everyone ( every qualified free male Athenian citizen ) by the phrase " whoever wishes ".

In the United States, farmland was typically divided as such, and the phrase " the back 40 " would refer to the 40 acre parcel to the back of the farm.

Brian Murdoch's 1993 translation would render the phrase as " there was nothing new to report on the Western Front " within the narrative.

During its design stages the name Victorie Stadion was frequently used, referring to the Dutch War of Independence, the phrase " n Alkmaar begint de victorie " ( Victory begins in Alkmaar ) in particular.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

However, it has been strongly argued that this was a point made out of mis-translation, as pointed out by Amin Malouf, and that the origin of the term in Middle Eastern culture comes from phrase Asasiyun, meaning those who follow the Asas ; believers in the foundation of faith.

It was at this time that ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, in order to provide proof of the falsity of the accusations leveled against him, in tablets to the West, stated that he was to be known as "` Abdu ' l-Bahá " an Arabic phrase meaning the Servant of Bahá to make it clear that he was not a Manifestation of God, and that his station was only servitude.

The phrase does not come from association with Black's Law Dictionary, which was first published in 1891.

The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

Before controversy erupted ( see below ) he exhibited an obsession with fire and his trademark phrase was " FIRE!

His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.

This poem gave rise to the common phrase monarch of all I survey via the verse:

The phrase definitely refers to a distillation of the common law into general and accepted legal principles.

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four the phrase " Big Brother " has come into common use to describe any prying or overly-controlling authority figure, and attempts by government to increase surveillance.

The original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus sanguinis meaning " right of blood " and means that citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

The construction involves replacing a common word with a rhyming phrase of two or three words and then, in almost all cases, omitting the secondary rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia, making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know.

Among these choices, Gaussian units are the most common today, and in fact the phrase " CGS units " is often used to refer specifically to CGS-Gaussian units.

In these elves are linked to the Æsir, particularly by the common phrase " Æsir and the elves ".

Some authorities claim the word derives from the Late Latin phrase forestam silvam, meaning " the outer wood "; others claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word * forhist " forest, wooded country ", assimilated to forestam silvam ( a common practise among Frankish scribes ).

One common example has to do with the phrase rule of thumb, meaning a rough measurement.

In the most common case concord system, only the final word ( the noun ) in a phrase is marked for case.

This negative reputation survives today in the English language, in terms like " gin mills " or the American phrase " gin joints " to describe disreputable bars or " gin-soaked " to refer to drunks, and in the phrase " mother's ruin ", a common British name for gin.

The word is used in a common English phrase, ' not one iota ', meaning ' not the slightest amount ', in reference to a phrase in the New Testament: " until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law " ().

" Jewish – Christian " is used in 1841 to mean a combination of Jewish and Christian beliefs, and by 1877 to mean a common Jewish – Christian culture, used in the phrase " the Jewish – Christian character of … traditions ".

Another characteristic feature of logical positivism is the commitment to " Unified Science "; that is, the development of a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a " universal slang " in which all scientific propositions can be expressed.

The phrase " methodological individualism ," which has come into common usage in modern debates about the connection between microeconomics and macroeconomics, was coined by the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1908 as a way of referring to the views of Weber.

A common use of the phrase ANN model really means the definition of a class of such functions ( where members of the class are obtained by varying parameters, connection weights, or specifics of the architecture such as the number of neurons or their connectivity ).

The chanting of the essential phrase Nam ( u ) Myoho Renge Kyo is a common practice between all followers of Nichiren Buddhism.

For example, in George Carlin's phrase " Atheism is a non-prophet institution ", the word " prophet " is put in place of its homophone " profit ", altering the common phrase " non-profit institution ".