A Quote by Nelly

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic. — © Nelly
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

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I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick.
I'm hooked on gin and tonics like your mama's Hooked on Phonics.
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.
This was a dream. A very bad, bad dream, brought on by liver poisoning from too many gin and tonics. Here it was, a deal with the devil. At what price my soul? He watched me expectantly and threateningly all at the same time. If I said no, I knew what would happen. Save the glass, waitress, I’m drinking from the bottle! Happy hour, with my neck on tap. If I said yes, I’d be agreeing to a partnership with pure evil.
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.
Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.
People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar. For example, I could say: Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America, or Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.
Gin! Gin, are you here?” “Right behind you,” I said. Finn shrieked and whirled around. I winced at the high-pitched sound. “Dammit, woman.” He clutched the folder to his chest. “Are you trying to give me a heart attack?
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.
Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.
Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.
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