Low-quality liquor, usually whiskey. The term originated in the late 1800s as a shortened version of “Hoochinoo,” a distilled beverage from Alaska that became popular during the Klondike gold rush. The phrase came back into heavy use in the 1920s.
The 1920s and 1930s were particularly rich in American slang terms for money, some of which are still in use today. Some terms referred to money's use in purchasing food: bacon (as in bring home), bread, dough, and so on. (One term for counterfeit money was sourdough.)
Applesauce- an expletive same as horsefeathers, As in "Ah applesauce!" Attaboy - well done!; also Attagirl! Baby - sweetheart. Also denotes something of high value or respect.
Some of the most popular slang words of the 20s included:
- Babe, Bim, Broad, Doll or Dame - A woman.
- Moll - A gangster's girlfriend.
- Bearcat - A fiery woman.
- Dumb Dora -A stupid woman.
- Sheba -A woman with sex appeal.
- Stool-pigeon - A person who informs the police.
- Peaching - Informing.
- Finger - Identify.
Other 1920s terms for marijuana are Mary Jane (1928) and muggle (1926). The term junkie is from 1923, and wingding, now known as a lively party or celebration, originated in 1927, says the OED, as "a fit or spasm, esp.
Giggle Water: Liquor. Gin mill: Bar. Glad rags: Fancy clothes. Glaum: Steal. Goofy: Crazy.
1. ab-so-lute-ly: affirmative, yes 2. absent treatment: dancing with a timid partner 3. air tight: very attractive 4. Airedale: an unattractive man 5.
Fuzz, referring to the police force, originated in America in 1929. A fuzzy, meanwhile, was a term from 1931 and referred to a policeman who was "very diligent in enforcing the law."
The idiomatic phrase big cheese comes from a definition of cheese that comes from Urdu, in which chiz means "a thing." The British colonization of India brought English speakers and Urdu speakers together, and one result was the phrase "the real chiz" to mean "a big thing or event." This evolved over time into big
- Time Flies.
- Cat got your tongue.
- All eggs in one basket.
- Hit the nail on the head.
- Red Herring.
- Hard Cheese.
- Spilled the beans.
- Having cold feet.
as bald as a coot. Meaning. Totally bald. An appearance of being completely bald, that is, without any hair on the head.
Dumb Dora was a comic strip published from 1924 to 1936 distributed by King Features Syndicate. The term "dumb Dora" was a 1920s American slang term for a foolish woman; the strip helped popularize the term.
In a gaming scene the word cheese is used to describe strategies or ways of playing that are really powerful and do not require much skill from the players side at the same time. The term is widely used both in video games and tabletop games alike.
phrase. If someone is on the lam or if they go on the lam, they are trying to escape or hide from someone such as the police or an enemy. [mainly US, informal] He was on the lam for seven years. See full dictionary entry for lam.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a red herring may be intentional, or unintentional; it is not necessarily a conscious intent to mislead. The expression is mainly used to assert that an argument is not relevant to the issue being discussed.
noun - uncountable
an attractive male. I'm going to the party to find me some cheese. This definition is questionable and is pending deletion. See more words with the same meaning: attractive male.Bill Parcells used to say "Don't eat the cheese" when things were going well and he didn't want his players to take their success for granted, or to read about their success and get overconfident.
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The image of a cheese wedge is the emoji representing dairy products in general or simply a piece of cheese. Depending on context, Cheese Wedge Emoji can mean “I simply love eating cheese!” or “I can't imagine living without dairy products!”.Cheese. Meaning: Slang term for money. Derived from the fact Americans on welfare used to receive cheese as part of their benefits. Explanation: This well-known American phrase was born at the end of the Second World War.
“We cannot reference the word cheese in relation to our ?? even if we identify it as plant-based, vegan, dairy free, use a hyphen or otherwise distinguish it from dairy.” Blue Heron added that cheese-specific terms like Cheddar and chèvre were also prohibited, which would make product names like Hazelnut Asiago and Herb
Cheese is not mold, it is a food made from milk. Neither is cheese a byproduct of mold. Mold is a fungus that grows on cheeses either intentionally or unintentionally. Mold is used as an additive to some cheeses to produce certain effects.
Story. Allegorically, Who Moved My Cheese? features four characters: two mice, "Sniff" and "Scurry," and two Littlepeople, human metaphor, "Hem" and "Haw." (The names of the Littlepeople are taken from the phrase "hem and haw," a term for indecisiveness.)
Cheese is made the same way — by curdling milk — except the milk is curdled on purpose. After milk is poured into big vats, a “starter culture” of bacteria is added to convert the lactose into lactic acid. Then an enzyme called rennet is added to curdle the milk.
loomed; looming; looms. Definition of loom (Entry 2 of 3) intransitive verb. 1 : to come into sight in enlarged or distorted and indistinct form often as a result of atmospheric conditions Storm clouds loomed on the horizon. 2a : to appear in an impressively great or exaggerated form deficits loomed large.
Used especially in the phrase going down the rabbit hole or falling down the rabbit hole, a rabbit hole is a metaphor for something that transports someone into a wonderfully (or troublingly) surreal state or situation.
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
