Jargon, in colonial history, an unstable rudimentary hybrid language used as a means of communication between persons having no other language in common. Although the term was long synonymous with pidgin—as can be seen by the use of jargon in the names
Lawyers were also known as sublime rascals, tongue-padders, and split-causes (because of their habit of going into lengthy explanatory discourses and nit-picking over every detail), Tom Sawyers (in London rhyming slang), and snipes—because they typically presented you with a very long bill. ...
“We would love to add more of these colloquialisms to our record of Australian English. People might be surprised that some of these types of informal naming are quite widespread and in some cases, quite old. As a kid I certainly knew a few names for different cicadas i...
2/2: Notes on News [...] [T]he act is a triumph of humour, and the lawyers who expound it the ‘funniest dogs’ out . 1885 Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Jan. 13/1: They were a lot of young dogs who had come out with a hundred or so, and had lived for a month at the rate of ...
1801 C. Dibdin Yngr Song Smith 134: For by scolds even lawyers surpass’d are; / Law’s limbs may be had by Old Scratch. 1811 J. Poole Hamlet Travestie I v: I thought ’twas Old Scratch. 1823 Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. 1837 R.M. Bird Nick of the Woo...
She rose to the top of the legal profession and became one of the most successful lawyers in the country.He rose to the top at a young age and won many singing awards请注意另一个实用的短语是 give rise to, 意思是造成了什么(问题):The employee’s behaviour gave rise to many complaints....
The addition of 'o' and 'ie' to words and names. - It is very common for names to be changed by adding either the letter 'o' or the letters 'ie', as in Johnno for John or Hughie for Hugh. There is no hard and fast rule for how this gets done but it is something you learn...
In 1992 former soap star Jason Donovan sued The Face magazine for “suggesting he was gay.” His lawyers claimed that this was “a poisonous slur on his reputation” and a court awarded him £200,000 damages. Donovan was reacting to an article that the magazine had carried an ‘outing’...