Slang Quotes - Page 4

• The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

  Anthony Burgess

  Downtrodden, Creator

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• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

  Michael Imperioli

  Unique, Cities, Numbers

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• I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

  J. B. Priestley

  Thinking, Two, Knows

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• When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

  Leland Ryken

  Religious, Thinking, Hypocrisy

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

  Ricky Jay

  Use, Way, Becoming

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2009.

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