In his online column, Best of The Web Today, James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal often uses the phrase " Homer Nods " as the title of a retraction or correction.

Whereas " Main Street " conjures up images of locally owned businesses and banks, the phrase " Wall Street " is commonly used interchangeably with the phrase " Corporate America ".

The 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street created the iconic figure of Gordon Gekko who used the phrase " greed is good ", which caught on in the cultural parlance.

In New Orleans, the phrase central business district is used ; and while downtown is sometimes used synonymously, traditionally it referred to parts of the city downriver from Canal Street, which would not include the CBD.

The producers were reportedly " frantic for a title "; they finally settled on the name that they least disliked: Sesame Street, inspired by Ali Baba's magical phrase, although there were concerns that it would be too difficult for young children to pronounce.

* In the 1994 remake of the film Miracle on 34th Street, the judge uses the phrase " In God We Trust " ( and therein the government's implicit recognition of God ) to justify ruling that Kris Kringle was, in fact, Santa Claus.

The staff of Universal Pictures paid homage to him by dedicating Street Fighter in his memory, adding the phrase " For Raúl.

In 2011, the Wall Street Journal first published the phrase, coined by the CEO of Catalog Spree.

California uses the phrase Not a Through Street or Not a Through Road to mark roads or road systems that end in cul de sacs.

The full phrase downtown Manhattan may also refer more specifically to the area of Manhattan south of Canal Street.

The phrase is also associated with another of Edith Wharton's aunts, Mary Mason Jones, who built a large mansion at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, then undeveloped.

Derived from the idea that " even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height ", the phrase, which originated on Wall Street, is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline.

" The phrase has been used on Wall Street for many years.

A woman's skirt blows up on 23rd Street, possible source of the phrase.

It is named after Roe v. Wade, the U. S. Supreme Court case that effectively legalized abortion nationwide in the U. S. Its best-known proponent is James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal who coined the phrase " Roe effect " in Best of the Web Today, his OpinionJournal. com column.

By repute, in 1837, when celebrating a successful fox hunt, Lord Waterford and his party found several tins of red paint which they daubed liberally on to the buildings of the High Street of Melton Mowbray so originating the phrase " painting the town red ".

Notwithstanding the popular cultural significance of the character ( and the wide repetition of this particular quotation ), Gekko never actually uttered the words " Greed is Good " in the original Wall Street film, although the trailers for the film featured a montage of edited scenes that resulted in the phrase being heard as such.

He coined the phrase declaring Portland, " the capital of conscience for the United States ," in a Portland Tribune Op Ed, which was then reiterated in The Wall Street Journal.

The phrase ' The End is Nigh ' derives from a man who could often be seen walking up and down London's Oxford Street wearing a sandwich board bearing the phrase.

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!

Saint Jerome later translated the Greek phrase as piscis granda in his Latin Vulgate, and as cetus in.

The phrase " riding shotgun " ( not found before 1905 ) was applied later to print and especially film depiction of stagecoaches and wagons in the Old West in danger of being robbed or attacked by bandits.

However, the phrase " the men " breaks the meter of the line, and later versions simply say " they ".

Gimbel and Charles Fox reworked the poem and the phrase into the song " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", recorded by Roberta Flack ( and later covered by The Fugees ).

The name " FUDGE " was once an acronym for Freeform Universal Donated ( later, Do-it-yourself ) Gaming Engine and, though the acronym has since been dropped, that phrase remains a good summation of the game's design goals.

The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).

Another notable ( and defiant ) phrase in the speech was also spoken in German, " Lass ' sie nach Berlin kommen " (" Let them come to Berlin ")-- addressed at those who claimed " we can work with the Communists ", a remark which Nikita Khrushchev scoffed at only days later.

Jerome later translated this phrase as piscis granda in his Latin Vulgate.

In the parse tree example, the phrase A gets reduced to Value and then to Products in steps 1-3 as soon as lookahead * is seen, rather than waiting any later to organize those parts of the parse tree.

He attended Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones school in Amlwch, where he was nicknamed Lemmy, although he is unsure why and it would later be claimed that it originated from the phrase " lemmy me a quid till Friday " because of his habit of borrowing money from people to feed his addiction to fruit machines ( slot machines ).

" He had remembered the phrase and later copied it down as Mottley Cru -.

The apocryphal phrase was, in fact, attributed to the Old Guard's commander, Pierre Cambronne but whose actual reply was later asserted by other sources to be " Merde!

The phrase was later appropriated by the Los Angeles Rams.

When decades later Prokofiev wrote about his lessons with Glière, he gave due credit to Glière's sympathetic qualities as a teacher but complained that Glière had introduced him to " square " phrase structure and conventional modulations which he subsequently had to unlearn.

The phrase Saul is among the prophets, is mentioned by the text in a way that suggests it was a proverb in later Israelite culture.

Playfair later recalled that " the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time ", and Hutton concluded a 1788 paper he presented at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, later rewritten as a book, with the phrase " we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

In later texts such as the Icelandic sagas, the phrase " to go viking " implies participation in raiding activity or piracy, and not simply seaborne missions of trade and commerce.

The name Wega ( later Vega ) comes from a loose transliteration of the Arabic word meaning " falling " or " landing ", via the phrase " the falling eagle ".

This phrase became the motto of the University, later expanded to " Princeton in the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations ".

This is illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint texts of Deuteronomy 32: 8 – 9, in which El, as the head of the divine assembly, gives each member of the divine family a nation of his own, " according to the number of the divine sons ": Israel is the portion of Yahweh. The later Masoretic text, evidently uncomfortable with the polytheism expressed by the phrase, altered it to " according to the number of the children of Israel "

Gutierrez also popularized the phrase " preferential option for the poor ", which became a slogan of liberation theology and later appeared in addresses of the Pope.

The phrase " suspension of disbelief " came to be used more loosely in the later 20th century, often used to imply that the burden was on the reader, rather than the writer, to achieve it.

Bryan's words gave rise to later economic and political philosophies, including Huey Long's 1930s Share Our Wealth program, with its trigger phrase, " Every Man a King " inspired by Bryan's speech.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.