by-words

Benders and under limbs seem to have gone by the boards, along with other by-words of the period, such as trotter (as in the trotter of a chicken) and joint (for specificity at the dining table, one might ask for the first joint or second joint).

Hugh Rawson: More Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010

Benders and under limbs seem to have gone by the boards, along with other by-words of the period, such as trotter (as in the trotter of a chicken) and joint (for specificity at the dining table, one might ask for the first joint or second joint).

Hugh Rawson: More Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010

Egyptian by-words are most amusing and characteristic; but they require literal translation, not the timid touch of the last generation.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Tolerance and moderation are the big by-words of progressives, designed to make us accept every thing that comes along, even if our instincts scream out that it is not right.

Sweet Deception 2006

The by-words of the Obama vision and campaign were "Change" and "Hope."

Jim Wallis: The Movement vs. the Maverick 2008

I feel like I'm trapped in amber, given the endless variations of the political intrigues and resurrected by-words (Cha-cha or Charter Change, for example, has been around ever since I became cognizant of my politics).

timestamp Dean Francis Alfar 2005

The very names strike fear - by-words for burglary, alienation, drug abuse and gang violence.

Archive 2005-02-27 Laban 2005

The very names strike fear - by-words for burglary, alienation, drug abuse and gang violence.

Poverty, Crime and Terror Laban 2005

Those were sort of by-words of his own Senate career.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Recount: U.S. Supreme Court Enters the Fray - November 24, 2000 2000

She had too much of her mother within her to be daunted by such trifles as these; for both of her parents had acquired an eminence in wickedness which have made their names by-words: but her mother's especially is considered almost a synonym for every thing that is unlovely in woman.

Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins