― Laurel, Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
(I always think of that when I see that word)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
auk (auk and style)
Turns out there's no such saying.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 10:40 (eight years ago) link
Booby trap
Obviously "boob"/"booby" is still used in, er, another context, but I think this is the only contemporary usage of its original meaning (a foolish person).
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
booby prize
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Achingly beautiful?
― real orgone kid (NickB), Thursday, 26 May 2016 07:50 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
Also, I guess the term "boob tube" is still used in the US, or is it?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:20 (eight years ago) link
(Meaning television, not the piece of clothing.)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:21 (eight years ago) link
No it's not. And there's no piece of clothing called boob tube.
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:27 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
Ah OK, well in America we don't have that term
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:38 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
much of a "muchness"
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:50 (eight years ago) link
Finland... UK... USA... do we even speak the same language?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:51 (eight years ago) link
"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 (eight years ago) link
... but only someone over age 60 would wear one.
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:53 (eight years ago) link
You should come to Brooklyn
― Josefa, Thursday, 26 May 2016 08:55 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
Genuinely surprising that there's no porn streaming site called BoobTube.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:18 (eight years ago) link
"Boob Tube"? You don't mean "Goggle Box" ?
― Mark G, Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:40 (eight years ago) link
Wit in "To wit"
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2016 11:45 (eight years ago) link
Raring in 'Raring to go'?
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 July 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
druthers
― ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 February 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Only pools are limpid.― weather1ngda1eson (Brian)
only green is limpid
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 February 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Damsel in distress.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 07:08 (five years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damselfly
― specific goats my way (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 08:10 (five years ago) link
Swingeing cuts.
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 November 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
The ides of march.
― visiting, Monday, 1 March 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
bandy around
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 7 May 2021 09:35 (three years ago) link
bandy about
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 7 May 2021 09:56 (three years ago) link
bandy words with
― Number None, Friday, 7 May 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link
'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 (three years ago) link
slake
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 May 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link
bandy-legged
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 7 May 2021 12:14 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
fun thread, btw!
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 May 2021 12:39 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
"And that's Bent Coppers."
― the pinefox, Friday, 7 May 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link
"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 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well_Wrought_Urn
― the pinefox, Friday, 7 May 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
all that glisters is not gold
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Friday, 7 May 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link