The fictional name Llareggub bears some resemblance to many actual Welsh place names, which often begin with Llan-( meaning church ), but the name was actually derived by reversing the phrase " bugger all ".

Variations on the phrase bugger it are commonly used to imply frustration, admission of defeat or the sense that something is not worth doing, as in bugger this for a lark or bugger this for a game of soldiers.

The phrase " bugger off " is a slang or dismissive term meaning " leave ".

Most commentators seem to agree that Matthew, alone among the gospels, alternates five blocks of narrative with five of discourse, marking each off with the phrase " When Jesus had finished ..." ( see Five Discourses of Matthew ).

( The name allegedly came from the phrase at the time, I'll run off a document.

The phrase " naff off " was used euphemistically in place of " fuck off " along with the intensifier " naffing " in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse ( 1959 ).

He was also the self-styled king ( later dictator ) of Peasemoldia, a small slum area in north London just off the Balls Pond Road, together with his wife Buttercup ( Marsden ), whose catch phrase was " Hello cheeky-face!

: The phrase a great singer, set off by commas, is both an appositive and a parenthesis.

A famous phrase of the day was " Will the last person out of Seattle please turn off the lights?

The French phrase c ' est la vie (" that's life "), while a common saying to brush off minor misfortunes, also sounds exactly like the Spanish se la vi (" I saw it ").

Swing uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums as the anchor for a lead section of brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, woodwinds including saxophones and clarinets, and sometimes stringed instruments such as violin and guitar, medium to fast tempos, and a " lilting " swing time rhythm. The name swing came from the phrase ‘ swing feel ’ where the emphasis is on the off – beat or weaker pulse in the music ( unlike classical music ).

Because cards are usually exchanged year after year, the phrase " to be off someone's Christmas card list " is used to indicate a falling out between friends or public figures.

" The phrase, " skin of blackness " was removed and became: " Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.

The name is alleged to have come from the phrase at the time, I'll run off a copy.

At the press conference to announce the tour, Martin joked about calling the tour off, and Sinatra rebuked a reporter for using the term " Rat Pack ," referring to it as " that stupid phrase ".

is turned almost wholly on his freeness with the startling idea or phrase, as glibly tossed off ( for the most part ) by a young lady who appears a wide-eyed child.

' Uhlig's phrase ' the Hebrew art-taste ' was to be used by Richard Wagner to spark off his attack on Meyerbeer, ' Das Judenthum in der Musik ( Jewishness in Music ).

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker notes that the phrase may have originated from this practice, as at this time " cutting off someone's nose was the prototypical act of spite.

To “ go off to the land of Nod ” plays with the phrase to “ nod off ”, meaning to go to sleep.

Developed by DJ Spinbad, DJ Cash Money and DJ Jazzy Jeff, transforming was basically clicking the fader on and off while moving a block of sound ( a riff or a short verbal phrase ) across the stylus.

We want Can-tor !," a phrase said to have originated in vaudeville, when the audience chanted to chase off an act on the bill before Cantor.

Faria Jr., from then on, often wondered how a mere phrase from his father could alter his state of mind so radically as to wipe off his stage fright in a second.

This is said to be the origin of the phrase " cutting off the nose to spite the face ".

In modern English there is no exact verbal phrase equivalent to the older set on, but rather various combinations which give different nuances to the idea of starting a process, such as winter has set in, set off on a journey, set up the stand, set out on a day trip, etc.

In his own phrase, Dyer was unable to " turn off " or " pull up " and he sometimes collected a teammate if his timing was out.

The phrase stemmed from the Lakers ' disappointing 1980 – 81 campaign coming off a championship the previous season.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

The phrase " American Sign Language " in ASL, transcribed in Stokoe notation

The phrase " American Sign Language " in ASL, transcribed in Sutton SignWriting

The American slang phrase bo diddly meaning " absolutely nothing " goes back possibly to the early 20th century or earlier.

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

An American businessperson has coined the phrase " enyanomics " to explain Enya's ability to sell millions of records without giving any live performances.

During World War II and for decades after, the phrase " Kilroy was here " with accompanying illustration was widespread throughout the world, due to its use by American troops and its filtering into American popular culture.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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 earliest use of the phrase seems to have been in an IBM advertising supplement to the New York Times published on April 30, 1961 and by Frank Fremont-Smith, Director of the American Institute of Biological Sciences Interdisciplinary Conference Program, in an April 1961 article in the AIBS Bulletin ( p.

In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage.

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

In American English, the term is less well known than the equivalent phrase Benedict Arnold.

Before the 1980s, the North American phrase " trick-or-treat " was little known in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and when introduced was often regarded as an unusual and even unwelcome import.

Marshall's wit is best remembered from a phrase he introduced to the American lexicon.

Senator James Rood Doolittle of Wisconsin asserted that all Native Americans were subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, so that the phrase " Indians not taxed " would be preferable, but Trumbull and Howard disputed this, arguing that the U. S. government did not have full jurisdiction over Native American tribes, which govern themselves and make treaties with the United States.

The phrase " think tank " in wartime American slang referred to rooms where strategists discussed war planning.

Varmint hunting is an American phrase for the selective killing of non-game animals seen as pests.

Dickens's satire on Catlin and others like him who might find something to admire in the American Indians or African bushmen is a notable turning point in the history of the use of the phrase.

The phrase " security of the American homeland " appears in the 1998 report Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy by Ashton B. Carter, John M. Deutch, and Philip D. Zelikow.

In the American crime drama television series Millennium ( 1996 – 1999 ), the main character Frank Black ( Lance Henriksen ) uses the phrase " Soylent Green is people " as a login to the Millennium Group Database.

He also examined the role of the poet in American society and famously summarized his poetic method in the phrase " No ideas but in things " ( found in his poem " A Sort of a Song " and repeated again and again in Paterson ).