Colloquial Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Colloquial

Colloquial. Often used in (informal) conversation but not yet standard. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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who laid the rail adv. phr. He’s a regular Cicero—seems to know this here oratory business frum who laid the rail. He don’t ever jest plain ast somebody to do somethin’. He adjures ’em by the altars of their Sunny Southland. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. It’s all wrong frum who laid the rail. Yas suh, I’ll tell the waitin’ world they don’t neither one of ’em onderstan’ the leas’ particle ’bout nigger actions an’ nigger depotemint. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. I found the yard full of neighbors, who had organzied themselves into a kind of indignation meeting, in which the city fathers, mothers, sisters, cousins and aunts were abused from who laid the rail. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. For all those years I have been loaded for bear with lectures of all sorts and sizes on “Who laid the Rail” to “What the Wild Western Waves are Saying.” [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. He was selling very cheap to Wm. Larew, the grocer, when the capture was made, and “lit out for who laid the rail,” but the marshal was a little too spry for him. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. If the poolrooms were to shut up tomorrow, we have enough material already in hand to keep us busy for months. That could not stop us. We are going to smoke them out for who laid the rail. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. We have running backs ’til who laid the rail. Alexander, Diedricht and Buckhalter are tough. Judd Davies is the real deal at fullback. The long list of backs may have just gotten longer with redshirt freshman Chris Butler’s 118-yard effort. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. I know I’ll end up getting spammed, or flamed, to who laid the rail because I’m using my real e-mail address, but that can’t be helped. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. I am unwrapping those kisses and shoving them in my mouth a “who laid the rail.” [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

who laid the rail adv. phr. Oh, these boys of mine are cowmen from who laid the rail. They’re not out to rob a neighbor. [English Colloquial] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2006)

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