common parlance
a typical way of speaking
TRANSLATION
common parlance = üblicher Sprachgebrauch --- GOOGLE INDEX common parlance: approximately 400,000 Google hits parlance: approximately 3,500,000 Google hits
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The result of a partnership between Al Seer Marine and 5G International, the Hydra is an unmanned surface vessel (USV) or, in COMMON PARLANCE, a sea drone.
(Popular Science magazine)
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"She is not what in COMMON PARLANCE is called a lady."
(from the novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy)
(Popular Science magazine)
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"She is not what in COMMON PARLANCE is called a lady."
(from the novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy)
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parlance
noun
- a group of words or style of speaking used by a particular group of people
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Parlance, which stems from the Old French "parler" (to speak), describes a particular way of speaking or using words, especially a way common to those with a particular job or interest, like football for instance.
After a frustrating 0-0 draw against Tottenham, Chelsea manager José Mourinho complained that "Tottenham might as well have put the team bus in front of their goal." Thereafter, the phrase "parking the bus" became an essential part of English football parlance to describe the strategy of playing mostly defence during a match.
Every profession and hobby has its own parlance, which to outsiders can often sound like a foreign language. Imagine sitting in a room full of quantum physicists who are talking about things like the "wave particle duality of energy" or the "Planck constant."
Likewise, people who don't knit may feel out of place hearing a knitter talking about "dropping a stitch" or "slip stitching." The best strategy in these situations is to simply nod your head and smile.
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SYNONYMS
argot, dialect, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, tongue, vernacular
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noun
- a group of words or style of speaking used by a particular group of people
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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Parlance, which stems from the Old French "parler" (to speak), describes a particular way of speaking or using words, especially a way common to those with a particular job or interest, like football for instance.
After a frustrating 0-0 draw against Tottenham, Chelsea manager José Mourinho complained that "Tottenham might as well have put the team bus in front of their goal." Thereafter, the phrase "parking the bus" became an essential part of English football parlance to describe the strategy of playing mostly defence during a match.
Every profession and hobby has its own parlance, which to outsiders can often sound like a foreign language. Imagine sitting in a room full of quantum physicists who are talking about things like the "wave particle duality of energy" or the "Planck constant."
Likewise, people who don't knit may feel out of place hearing a knitter talking about "dropping a stitch" or "slip stitching." The best strategy in these situations is to simply nod your head and smile.
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SYNONYMS
argot, dialect, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, tongue, vernacular
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Sometimes I have difficulty with the common parlance of the Internet generation."
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Thanks to V. for suggesting today's word!
