Oh, I didn't know the English term for the concept of "booby prize", thanks for enlightening me.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:19 (ten years ago)
Also, I guess the term "boob tube" is still used in the US, or is it?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:20 (ten years ago)
(Meaning television, not the piece of clothing.)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:21 (ten years ago)
No it's not. And there's no piece of clothing called boob tube.
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:27 (ten years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_top
A tube top, colloquially known in the U.K. as a boob tube, is a shoulderless, sleeveless women's garment that wraps around the upper torso.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:35 (ten years ago)
Ah OK, well in America we don't have that term
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:38 (ten years ago)
huh I always thought it was an Americanism
― reader, if you love him so much why don't you marry him? (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:50 (ten years ago)
much of a "muchness"
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:50 (ten years ago)
Finland... UK... USA... do we even speak the same language?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:51 (ten years ago)
"Boob tube" in America means TV, yes, but only someone over age 60 would use that term in that way. We say "tube top" for the garment.
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:52 (ten years ago)
... but only someone over age 60 would wear one.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:53 (ten years ago)
You should come to Brooklyn
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:55 (ten years ago)
The high water mark of "boob tube" was probably the 70s, so "over age 60" is a little exaggerated, but it's not a current hip hep and happening phrase. It is definitely generally understandable still. "The tube" for tv is probably a little more in use, but then again tvs aren't as in use as they used to be.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 26 May 2016 10:05 (ten years ago)
Genuinely surprising that there's no porn streaming site called BoobTube.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:18 (ten years ago)
"Boob Tube"? You don't mean "Goggle Box" ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:40 (ten years ago)
Wit in "To wit"
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:45 (ten years ago)
Raring in 'Raring to go'?
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 July 2018 17:58 (seven years ago)
I don't think I even quoted it secondhand. Actually, my students want Maduro gone, and I've seen the strange-bedfellows approach b/w the Trump administration and the parents of the students who have no butter or meat.― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:04 (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:04 (forty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq7LM4rOcV4
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 February 2019 01:54 (seven years ago)
druthers
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 February 2019 03:08 (seven years ago)
seems like the word 'fraught' is accompanied by 'with danger' at least 95% of the time. partly to be perverse, I like to dislodge it from danger and use it in other contexts.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 February 2019 04:23 (seven years ago)
i rarely use fraught in the "with danger" context. I use it as a replacement for "problematic" which has semantically shifted in recent years.
― sarahell, Sunday, 10 February 2019 05:08 (seven years ago)
Only pools are limpid.― weather1ngda1eson (Brian)
only green is limpid
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 February 2019 12:16 (seven years ago)
just read this wonderful malapropism:
"These guys covered the gamete with Rock N’ Roll, Blues, R&B and splendid jams."
which reminds me that mature haploid cells aside, the gamut is only ever run.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 February 2019 15:20 (seven years ago)
Damsel in distress.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 07:08 (seven years ago)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damselfly
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 08:10 (seven years ago)
Swingeing cuts.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 November 2020 12:08 (five years ago)
The ides of march.
― visiting, Monday, 1 March 2021 16:00 (five years ago)
bandy around
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 7 May 2021 09:35 (five years ago)
bandy about
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 7 May 2021 09:56 (five years ago)
bandy words with
― Number None, Friday, 7 May 2021 09:59 (five years ago)
'about' - same thing'words with' - i'll allow it.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 7 May 2021 10:08 (five years ago)
slake
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 May 2021 11:55 (five years ago)
bandy-legged
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 7 May 2021 12:14 (five years ago)
lol, just watched an episode of Survivor where someone was called a "bandy-legged troll" last night
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 May 2021 12:34 (five years ago)
fun thread, btw!
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 May 2021 12:39 (five years ago)
For a second I considered that "wreak" was only used with "havoc." On reconsidering I think you can also wreak vengeance.
― Triumph of the Willa Cather (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 May 2021 12:44 (five years ago)
"And that's Bent Coppers."
― the pinefox, Friday, 7 May 2021 13:00 (five years ago)
"score" in the numerical sense is pretty rare outside of "Four score and seven years ago" but occasionally I guess you see people writing "scores of ___."
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 7 May 2021 15:27 (five years ago)
I think "wrought" is only used in two phrases, each with a somewhat different sense of "wrought" -- "What hath god wrought" and "wrought iron"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 7 May 2021 15:30 (five years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_Wrought_Urn
― the pinefox, Friday, 7 May 2021 15:35 (five years ago)
all that glisters is not gold
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Friday, 7 May 2021 16:43 (five years ago)
Been a long time since I heard "doth" without "protest too much."
― Triumph of the Willa Cather (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 May 2021 16:52 (five years ago)
Figgy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 May 2021 16:53 (five years ago)
would "overwrought" count for "wrought" ?
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 May 2021 17:34 (five years ago)
the wrought’s set in
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 May 2021 17:43 (five years ago)
wrought you like a hurricane
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 7 May 2021 17:46 (five years ago)
seems like the only time anyone is wroth anymore, it's that they've been waxing wroth
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Friday, 7 May 2021 17:48 (five years ago)
This is a story of Johnny Wroughten
― Triumph of the Willa Cather (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 May 2021 17:49 (five years ago)
Xp
Nook and cranny. Nooks can exist on their own but there's never a cranny without a nook.
― BrianB, Thursday, 13 May 2021 13:27 (five years ago)