In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
One of the main aims of Sharon is to prevent a Palestinian state - a real, viable, sovereign, free Palestinian state. It has been the major task of his life for the last forty years. What Sharon wants to do is "shorten the lines," in military slang. He wants to give up some positions which are untenable, or which cost too much to keep, and to withdraw to where he wants Israel to be.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Correct English is the slang of prigs.
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered.
I know you like the way I am freakin' it. I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it.
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.
What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
