Vernacular Expressions

1. "I will only open the door if you use the secret knock."
2. "That does it! Go to your room!" yelled my father.
3. At the gay rights march, the group chanted the well-known chant: "We're here, we're queer. Get used to it."
4. You won't be able to eat at the restaurant if you don't phone ahead and make a reservation first.
5. We need to make violent video games illegal. Please think of the children. Do you want them to grow up with violence?
6. "Down with homework!" chanted the grammar school children.
7. After the High School student pushed the Grammar School student, another High School student yelled to the bully, "Why don't you pick on someone your own size!"
8. Most of my family members are regular joes: they work at restaurants or factories.
9. Thank goodness no one stole my bike over the summer.
10. A good personality is important when persuing romantic conquest.
11. She was one of the good ones. We will miss her.
12. "I will give you a Big Mac if you give me your sandwich and apple." "Deal."
13. "Thank you for helping me with my homework." "Hey, can the courtesy. You know I'm always willing to help you, and I don't expect to be thanked."
14. For some elders, a young man with long hair arouses suspicion.
15. "How's it hanging?" is a common expression that one young man would ask a male friend. Women can use it ironically. It is a vulgar expression, but it is so common that it doesn't usually bother people. It might even appear on a cartoon show.
16. I plumb forgot about the paper due today. I hope the teacher will give me an extension.
17. Most college students in Japan take a relaxed attitude toward studying because High School was the more important academic period in their life.
18. To be a good teacher, you must have and teach infinite compassion.
19. Hinduism has over 1 million Gods, but one of the most popular Gods is Ganesha.
20. You are always talking. Don't you ever shut up?
21. Because of a grandfather clause, the landlord is not allowed to raise his rent.
22. I know this is not a good school because the classes use out-of-date textbooks.
23. Well, everyone is here. We have to go now to make it to KTV before 8p.m. Let's roll.
24. "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath free" says the plaque on the Statue of Liberty.
25. Derek Jeter is the glue that holds the Yankees together as a team, but my favorite Yankee is, of course, A-Rod.