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...term "Japs" is (of course) journalese. I have never used the slang myself and I never will...
Through the years, the animals and their corresponding numbers have developed special meanings in Brazilian slang. Because a veado (deer) is Brazilian for pansy, the group number (24) for deer is never used in polite society...
...story like this. Desperately short on finesse, the film's makers laid on the loving kindness with such a broad commercial trowel that the effect is often suffocating. Most of the archness and comedy is even harder to take: e.g., the mystification over such bits of vital indigenous slang as "hot dog" and "bull" (policeman...
...were excited at the prospect of seeing their fathers and mothers again. But five years of chewing U.S. gum, watching U.S. ball games and listening to Frank Sinatra had left their mark. Many had lost their childhood accents, and all had achieved a glib mastery of U.S. slang. Said twelve-year-old Norman Whitehead, after a final subway ride and ice-cream binge: "I'm going to tell my parents that I painted the town red-that will defeat them...
Although the discussion was obscured by the trade slang of monetary metaphysics, a surprising weight of world opinion had developed behind the proposals. Bretton Woods would probably be functioning by next year...