* Squidgygate, the covert leaking of a bugged phone call between the Princess of Wales and James Hewitt, although the phrase originally referred to the exposure of the Princess's extramarital affair ( 1992 )

The word consilience was originally coined as the phrase " consilience of inductions " by William Whewell (" consilience " refers to a " jumping together " of knowledge ).

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

It originally comes from the phrase " Three quarks for Muster Mark " in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

The phrase " rocking and rolling " originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy.

The Oxford English Dictionary says that the phrase " tug of war " originally meant " the decisive contest ; the real struggle or tussle ; a severe contest for supremacy ".

In the second edition of January 1860, Darwin quoted Kingsley as " a celebrated cleric ", and added the phrase " by the Creator " to the closing sentence, which from then on read " life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one ".

The Old Norse feminine víking ( as in the phrase fara í víking ) may originally have been a sea journey characterized by the shifting of rowers, i. e. a long-distance sea journey, because in the pre-sail era, the shifting of rowers would distinguish long-distance sea journeys.

The Reverend W. V. Awdry's The Railway Series ( 1945 – 72 ) story Henry's Sneeze, originally described soot-covered boys with the phrase " as black as niggers ".

Bryan's speeches evolved over time ; in December 1894, in a speech in Congress, he first used a phrase from which would come the conclusion to his most famous address: as originally stated, it was " I will not help to crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

It was originally known as RECAP, an acronym for the phrase Recover A Penis.

The phrase " growed like Topsy " ( later " grew like Topsy "; now somewhat archaic ) passed into the English language, originally with the specific meaning of unplanned growth, later sometimes just meaning enormous growth.

Although that phrase, itself depicted in a type of still life, vanitas, originally referred not to obsession with one's appearance, but to the ultimate fruitlessness of man's efforts in this world, the phrase summarizes the complete preoccupation of the subject of the picture.

It also included TI's TMS 5220 speech chip, originally designed for the TI-99, and would speak the rather confusing phrase " dhtick " when starting up.

The phrase stately home is a quotation from the poem The Homes of England, which was originally published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1827.

Session tapes from the initial 1 March 1967 recording of this song reveal that Lennon originally sang the line " Cellophane flowers of yellow and green " as a broken phrase, but McCartney suggested that he sing it more fluidly to improve the song.

Kerouac allows that it was street hustler Herbert Huncke who originally used the phrase " beat ", in an earlier discussion with him.

The phrase io Saturnalia was the characteristic shout or salutation of the festival, originally commencing after the public banquet on the single day of December 17.

The term Jesus freak was originally a pejorative label imposed on the group by non-Christian hippies, but members of the Jesus movement reclaimed the phrase as a positive self-identifier.

The phrase was originally coined by the Royal Court Theatre's press officer to promote John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.

" Some have claimed that the phrase was originally written by John Soule in the Terre Haute Express in 1851, but it is most often attributed to Greeley.

IMAX originally reserved the phrase " the IMAX experience " for true 70 mm productions, but now allows its use on DMR productions as well.

In the United States, civil religion is often invoked under the name of " Judeo-Christian tradition ", a phrase originally intended to be maximally inclusive of the several monotheisms practiced in the United States, assuming that these faiths all worship the same God and share the same values.

The name dpkg was originally the short for " Debian package ", but the meaning of that phrase has evolved significantly, as dpkg the software is orthogonal to the deb package format as well as the Debian Policy which defines how Debian packages behave.

It was often referred to as " the material of 1000 uses ", a phrase originated by Baekeland himself.

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.

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus soli meaning " right of soil ".

Class actions are commonly referred to as class action suits ; however, this phrase is redundant as the historical distinction between " actions " at law and " suits " in equity is no longer recognized.

Freed is commonly referred to as the " father of rock and roll " due to his promotion of the music and his introduction of the phrase " rock and roll " on radio in the early 1950s.

They claim that the phrase " ever-living " rarely, if ever, referred to a living person, but instead was used to refer to the eternal soul of the deceased.

A study by Donald Wayne Foster determined that the phrase " ever-living " in fact rarely referred to human beings, living or dead, but rather to God or other supernatural beings, suggesting that the dedication calls upon God to bless the living begetter of the sonnets.

Old Irish tuath ( plural tuatha ) means " people, tribe, nation "; and dé is the genitive case of día, " god, goddess, supernatural being, object of worship " ( they are often referred to simply as the Tuatha Dé, a phrase also used to refer to the Israelites in early Irish Christian texts ).

On 25th July 1864 the standing warrant officers were divided into two grades: warrant officers and chief warrant officers ( or " commissioned warrant officers ", a phrase that was replaced in 1920 with " commissioned officers from warrant rank ", although they were still usually referred to as " commissioned warrant officers ", even in official documents ).

He referred to his Liverpudlian son-in-law as " Shirley Temple " or a " randy Scouse git " ( Randy Scouse Git as a phrase caught the ear of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees who heard it while on tour in the UK-and who co-opted it as the title of the group's next single-though their record label renamed it " Alternate Title " in the UK market to avoid controversy ) and to his wife as a " silly moo " ( a substitute for " cow " which was vetoed by the BBC's head of comedy Frank Muir ).

In early 19th century Britain, the phrase " civil rights " most commonly referred to the problem of legal discrimination against Catholics.

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

For example, in Germany the totality of the complex German Democratic Republic border regime is commonly referred to with the short phrase " Mauer und Stacheldraht " ( that is, " wall and barbed wire "), and Amnesty International has a barbed wire in their symbol.

The phrase referred to the idea that life was created through unspecified processes by an intelligent but unidentified designer.

Some sources incorrectly refer to the June 1982 speech before the British House of Commons as the " Evil Empire " speech, but while Reagan referred twice to totalitarianism in his London speech, the exact phrase " evil empire " did not appear in any speech until later in his Presidency.

This same period is sometimes referred to as " mid-school " or a " middle school " in hip hop, the phrase covering acts like Gang Starr, The UMC's, Main Source, Lord Finesse, EPMD, Just Ice, Stetsasonic, True Mathematics, and Mantronix.

The phrase referred to " a licene granted by a sovereign to a subject, authorizing him to make reprisals on the subjects of a hostile state for injuries alleged to have been done to him by the enemy's army.

The traditional progression in the size of syntactic units is word < phrase < clause, and in this approach a single word ( such as a noun or pronoun ) would not be referred to as a phrase.

( In some accounts that take this approach, the constituent lacking the determiner – that called N-bar above – may be referred to as a noun phrase.

In use since the 1990s, the term LGBT is an adaptation of the initialism " LGB ", which itself started replacing the phrase gay community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the community in question felt did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.

Astraea's hoped-for return was referred to in a phrase from Virgil's Eclogue IV: " Iam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia Regna " ( The Virgin and the Days of Old return ).