English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
Standard English
Everybody knows her for eye service (nonstandard).
Everybody knows her for grandstanding (standard). Grandstanding is to seek to attract applause or favourable attention from spectators or the media.
If you care to know, failure is not in my dictionary (nonstandard).
If you care to know, failure is not in my vocabulary (standard). When you mean to say that someone will not accept a particular idea or possibility, you say it’s not in the person’s vocabulary.
GAB
