Examples of shibboleth

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Laudably, although not unexpectedly, this volume reflects the growth of the canon during the last three decades beyond the white male shibboleths.
Such shibboleths thus tend to change rapidly; they are subject to fashion.
Idioms may in fact be biblical shibboleths.
Intellectual historians should, it seems, carefully consider their current shibboleth of contextualization, using it not simply to demonstrate innovation, but also to analyse similarity.
The phrase looks nice on the page but, coming on the heels of that shibboleth second foot, proves delicately embarrassing to say aloud.
Publication, indeed, often proved the shibboleth revelatory of the attitude toward both secular studies and fame.
The r-coloring of final vowels must have been a shibboleth among polite speakers, like the first-syllable stressing of cement.
He merely repeats the old shibboleth about school catchment areas, now much less important given education reforms of the last eight years.
A number of practical recommendations are made from these findings, including the importance of a strong focus in teaching on the prosodic aspects of speech and a few shibboleth sounds.
Unless the corporate social responsibility issues are understood properly, this will become another sort of shibboleth for the global economy.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Have done with your shibboleths or have done with the men who make use of them.
From the
Hansard archive