Getting comfortable with slang is essential for building relationships and communicating at work.
"He didn't speak English that well and with my Yorkshire slang, I think that made things difficult too, " said Toseland.
Jim feels half at home there, for what does a boarding school resemble, with its cryptic slang, its awkward alliances, and its arcane regulations, if not the Circus?
This morning, Rite Aid (nyse: RAD - news - people ) reported comps--analyst slang for monthly same-store sales figures compared with the year-ago period--that were up 5.9% for April.
Sooner or later somebody, usually Charlie, gets around to saying or doing something embarrassingly pretentious, and all at once you remember the alchemic creativity with which the Odets of the 1930s turned working-class slang into poetry, and sigh at the thought of what the American stage lost when he turned his back on the world of "Golden Boy" and "Awake and Sing!"
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Others say it is township slang for "shower" because it "showers people with music".
But the director, Randall Miller, and a cadre of screenwriters (John Semper and Cynthia Friedlob did the script from a story by Michael Swerdlck, Wayne Rice, and Richard Breene), come up with little more than brutal slapstick and up-to-the-minute slang.
Presumably they provided him with physical protection--a "roof, " as it's called in Russian slang.
Manuel Martinez, as he then was (Manolo Chopera is an untranslatable slang name everyone called him), had little enthusiasm for engineering and preferred to work with horses.
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