Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg

23Nov2008 In : Quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Slang
Quotations by Carl Sandburg

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.SlangQuotations by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.LanguageQuotations by Anthony Burgess

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.Ideals and IdealismQuotations by Carl Sandburg

today's shipoopi : shipoopi [neologism of Wolfe/Meredith?] slang : a woman; the girl who's hard to get(?) (Eric Partridge claims the slang

today's wheeze : wheeze [in this sense, orig. Theatrical slang, a joke or comic gag introduced into a performance] Brit. slang : a

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