Much of the discussion of slang by popular etymologists is devoted to proofs that this or that locution is not really slang at all--that it is to be found in Shakespeare, in Milton, or in the Revised Version.
This is "good grammar" in Gaelic, and the Irish, when they began to learn English, translated the locution literally.
In his dictionary there is scarcely a locution that is not supported by printed examples.
Would an English literary critic of any pretensions employ such a locution as "all by her /lonesome/"?
The human locution is as something which we cannot well make out, as if we were half asleep; but the divinelocution is a voice so clear that not a syllable of its utterance is lost.
A common but undesirable locution for “all the world over” or “over all the world.
The locution “will nor disposition” “power nor faculty,” distinguishes the two members of a pair as different.
Avoid as incorrect such locution as “A remarkable phenomena.
Therefore, avoid such a locution as “an innumerable number,” as absurd.
But whatever the measure he adopted, he was scrupulously consistent to it, though he employed it easily, seldom conceding an awkward or prosaic locution to the exigencies of lilt or rime.
We have here, in the last locution of this series, the most complicated and seemingly original of them all.
The book is valuable as an illustration of the way in which the work of Rome is being done in our land under Church of England auspices.
The correlatives of thatlocution appear in other languages.
A tolerable idea of the state of the discussion regarding the propriety of using the locution is being built, and all like expressions, will, it is hoped, be obtained from the following extracts.
If, as Horace and Professor Davidson aver, usage in language makes right, then the grammarians ought long ago to have invented some theory upon which the locution you are mistaken could be defended.
I select it merely as an example of a demonstrably vicious locution which ought indubitably to be banished from the language.
We are apt in England to class as an "Americanism" every unfamiliar, or too familiar, locution which we do not happen to like.
I am very much mistaken if the locutiondoes not occur elsewhere in Holmes.
The locution is based upon the fact that illegitimate children do not enjoy the same rights and privileges as those born in wedlock (431.
Another locution is, "Your will is in the corner" (i.
In Meiderich the locutionis "Apples have golden stems," i.
Some of the variants of this locution are expressed in very coarse language (431.
As yet I have not seen "ministers is," but even this barbaric locution bids fair to be reached in course of time.
He would make the best possible teacher of l'élocution française; therefore it was necessary that he should come and live in Berlin.
Wine of the colour of the windows of the Sainte Chapelle," was a popular locution of the time.
Howell mentions the locution in a letter dated 1654.
Wine of the colour of the glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle," was a popular locution of the time.
