Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easygoing pidgin, one word does the work of 20, a shrug or grimace the work of ten. It ranges from the simple ("I no like that") to the colorfully complex ("You stay go, I stay come," meaning "You go ahead, I'll join you later"). When Hawaiian idiom is mixed with pidgin grammar, the result takes an expert to fathom. Sample: "He no got wahine. She too much pilikia. Make him huhu." ("He has no girl any more. She was too much trouble. She made...
...more it is free. If everything is permissible to me, the best and the worst, then any effort is inconceivable. . . ." The anarchic modern composer has become "a monster of originality, inventor of his own language, of his own vocabulary. ... So he comes to the point of speaking an idiom without relation to the world that listens...
Ticket scalping, the idiom describing the prevalent practice of playing the football market at multiple margin, will be on the defensive this year under public law enforcement statute...
Boby Clark is a last remnant of the American entertainment idiom characterized by the minstrel show, the burlesque and the one-two-three kick. Clark and his walking stick continue in the manner of Weber and Fields and other footlight pranksters: a little man who speaks softly and brings down the house. Viewed apart from Clark and the situation comedy he provokes, "Sweethearts" is not worth the few tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting...
...result of Lewis' special gift for dramatizing Christian dogma. He would be the last to claim that what he says is new; but, like another eloquent and witty popularizer of Christianity, the late G. K. Chesterton, he has a talent for putting old-fashioned truths into a modern idiom...