You know island culture and the local lingo.
"You seem to have picked up a little of the local lingo, Colonel."
And not much chance of Fishy learning enough of the local lingo to set up a sting like this.
We get so used to the local lingo, we sometimes forget that not everybody knows it.
And learning the local lingo fast is essential to survival.
Lockwood moved in the best of his language teachers, the ones who had picked up the most of the local lingo.
All planets, in their local lingo, were Earth.
His poetry is a rich colours of traditional Urdu and the local lingo.
In the local lingo this meant "noisy waters" by some accounts.
Do you even have a phrase book for the local lingo?