As it is #PrideMonth, I thought it would be interesting to identify some aphorisms that have actually been appropriated from minority groups into common parlance. I'll start:
"(Keep it) on the down-low / DL":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low_(sexual_slang) …
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Is it cheating to link to all of this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_linguistics …
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But seriously, "keeping it on the DL" is a term the roots of which are unknown to most people who use (I lit just learned myself), whereas many other terms are LGBT-specific
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