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While slang is usually inappropriate for formal settings, this assortment includes well-known expressions from that time, with some still in use today, e.g., blind date, cutie-pie, freebie, and take the ball and run. [2] These items were gathered from published sources documenting 1920s slang, including books, PDFs, and websites.
Usable as a common word: Pierre-Paul-Jacques (with the meaning of "Someone"); [17] Random people (similar to Average John/Jane): Monsieur/Madame Tout-le-monde [citation needed] (Mr/Mrs Everyone), Untel/Unetelle (Mr/Mrs NoName; literally, “a such” and thus similar to the English “so-and-so”), [18] Madame Michu (only female), [19] (M./Mme) Tartempion (familiar and a little satirical); [20]
In the 1972 play Le noir te va si bien, Maria Pacôme and Jean le Poulain play a « surname game » (with « Mr. and Mrs. have... »), with the loser having to throw him or herself off a cliff. Following the example (the daughter of Micoton (Mylène)), they successively came up with: the son of Danleta (Alphonse), the son of Teuzemani (Gédéon ...
The Dictionary of American Slang is an English slang dictionary. The first edition was edited by Stuart Flexner and Harold Wentworth and published in 1960 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company . [ 1 ] After Wentworth's death in 1965, [ 2 ] Flexner wrote a supplemented edition which was published in 1967. [ 3 ]
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The Very Reverend (abbreviation The Very Rev.), oral address Mr./Madam Dean or Mr./Madam Provost, as appropriate, or Very Reverend Sir/Madam – Anglican deans and provosts of cathedrals, the deans of Westminster Abbey and St George's Chapel, Windsor, and, for historical reasons, a few parish priests, such as the Dean of Bocking.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith leans into its comedy billing here when John asks what agency he works for and the neighbor responds with, “Sotheby’s.” John has no idea what that is and presses him further ...