Slang Word Meaning

Famous quotes containing the words slang, word and/or meaning:

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

““Mother” is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, “Why isn’t life turning out the way we want it?””
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)

“Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)