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Meanings of common parlance in English

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Usage of common parlance in English
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They embody First World Problems long before that phrase entered common parlance.
The Irish Times
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In common parlance, Walter was as good-hearted a fellow as ever breathed.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
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In common parlance-isnot that the word?-thatwoman is in a frightful fix.
The Crimson Blind
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This is a woman who took the spicebag from the ghetto into common parlance.
The Irish Times
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In common parlance, she was a SCOLD, a thorough one.
Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-st...
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Spherical stones used for casse-têtes, or in common parlance, slung-shot.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the India...
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I should say an educated man-incommon parlance, a gentleman.
The Lodger
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He was an ill-looking person, poorly clad,-what ,incommon parlance, we should call seedy.
Mr. Scarborough's Family
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The derogative appellation was common parlance in earlier decades of the century in rural Ireland.
The Irish Times
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Our sparing use of words is so admired it has been adopted into common parlance.'
Gladiatrix
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This state of mind has even influenced common parlance.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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The last words were a lapse into common parlance.
The Mormon Prophet
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Hence the marsh where the shrubs were cut down was styled in common parlance Deadly Marsh.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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Such is the tendency of movement in that which we in common parlance call the Old World.
The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
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In common parlance, at least in my younger days, you went "down" to the north.
The Irish Times
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The word Wagnerian has entered common parlance as a synonym for grandiose, bombastic, or, simply, very long.
The new yorker
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