#slang

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#poetry #slang

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#i #i think #know #lousy #only

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#language #never #no respect #people #polite

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

— Carl Sandburg

#hands #language #rolls #slang #sleeves

I’m not trying to—What do teenagers say nowadays?” he asked my grandmother.“Get all up in her biznez,” Nana said.Without cracking a smile.“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re not trying to get all up in your biznez, Ali. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#grandparents #teenage-slang #funny

It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real! ↗

— Ethan Luck

#real #slang #unreal #funny

rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS. ↗

— David Levithan

#acronyms #emoticons #humor #internet-slang #humor

<3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum. ↗

— John Green

#internet-slang #internet

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. ↗

— Ike Turner

#american #china #everyone #get #slang

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#great #slang