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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

G. K. Chesterton
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg
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A new slang term was obviously needed to describe this behavior. Jumping up and down on Oprah's couch, in front of millions, is truly bizarre.

Grant Barrett
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I told her, 'I'll ground you.' I didn't know it was slang for flow.

Jesse Diaz
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It's a slang expression, a street expression, but we should have known better not to use it. I am supposed to read every word. Sometimes it's busy or I am lazy. We are working on a retraction.

Jerry Ellis
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In time, all language changes. Usually slang disappears when new slang takes its place.

Carolann Johnson
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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
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in 'dialect' and humor in slang. We know by one's reading His learning and breeding; By what draws his laughter We know his Hereafter. Read nothing, laugh never -- The Sphinx was less clever! Jupiter Muke.

Ambrose Bierce
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