1.skid row
1. a place of where people go after hitting rock bottom 2. a place where the destitute and underlings of society gather. 3. jail
Joey was found in skid row after losing his job, wife, and home thanks to the greedy corporation that laid him off.
2. skid row
"Skidding" refers to the method of moving logs/timbers by dragging them along the ground. Before the age of trucks and the internal combustion engine Skidding was done by teams of horses/mules/oxen driven by burly men of a rather low station in life. A skid road led from the outlying area where timber cutting was done to the sawmill usually near a city or source of power such as a millrace. "skid row" referred to the row of low cost wooden shanties which sprang up along the skid road. Persons living in these shanties were associated with or subservient to the skidders, timber cutters etc and usually represented the lowest station in the social life of a town or village. Skid row was often populated with prostitutes, homeless, paupers, transients etc.
After being foreclosed on by the bank, the widow Jenkins and her children had go live on skid row and take her chances.
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1. a place of where people go after hitting rock bottom 2. a place where the destitute and underlings of society gather. 3. jail
Joey was found in skid row after losing his job, wife, and home thanks to the greedy corporation that laid him off.
"Skidding" refers to the method of moving logs/timbers by dragging them along the ground. Before the age of trucks and the internal combustion engine Skidding was done by teams of horses/mules/oxen driven by burly men of a rather low station in life. A skid road led from the outlying area where timber cutting was done to the sawmill usually near a city or source of power such as a millrace. "skid row" referred to the row of low cost wooden shanties which sprang up along the skid road. Persons living in these shanties were associated with or subservient to the skidders, timber cutters etc and usually represented the lowest station in the social life of a town or village. Skid row was often populated with prostitutes, homeless, paupers, transients etc.
After being foreclosed on by the bank, the widow Jenkins and her children had go live on skid row and take her chances.
la·con·ic
[luh-kon-ik]
adjective
using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: alaconic reply.
gre·gar·i·ous
[gri-gair-ee-uhs]
adjective
1.
fond of the company of others; sociable.
2.
living in flocks or herds, as animals.
3.
Botany . growing in open clusters or colonies; not mattedtogether.
4.
pertaining to a flock or crowd.
gar·ru·lous
[gar-uh-luhs, gar-yuh-]
adjective
1.
excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner,especially about trivial matters.
2.
wordy or diffuse: a garrulous and boring speech.
vi·ti·ate
[vish-ee-eyt]
verb (used with object), vi·ti·at·ed, vi·ti·at·ing.
1.
to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
2.
to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.
3.
to debase; corrupt; pervert.
4.
to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate: to vitiate aclaim.
scotch
1 [skoch]
verb (used with object)
1.
to put a definite end to; crush; stamp out; foil: to scotch arumor; to scotch a plan.
2.
to cut, gash, or score.
3.
to injure so as to make harmless.
4.
to block or prop with a wedge or chock.
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over a barrel in a situation in which someone has no choice about what to do The software company has you over a barrel – if you don't accept the license, you can't use the software. Usage notes: usually used with have, as in the example Etymology: based on the idea of making someone lie on a barrel (a large, curved container) so they will be unable to move freely See also: barrel
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over a barrel in a situation in which someone has no choice about what to do The software company has you over a barrel – if you don't accept the license, you can't use the software. Usage notes: usually used with have, as in the example Etymology: based on the idea of making someone lie on a barrel (a large, curved container) so they will be unable to move freely See also: barrel
an·gle
2 [ang-guhl]Verb, an·gled, an·gling, noun
verb (used without object)
2.
to attempt to get something by sly or artful means; fish: to angle for a compliment.
cotton on
cotton on
[phrasal verb] informal : to begin to understand something : to catch on
▪ It took a while, but they are finally starting to cotton on. — often + to ▪ She cottoned on to the fact that I like her.
▪ It took a while, but they are finally starting to cotton on. — often + to ▪ She cottoned on to the fact that I like her.
cotton to[phrasal verb]
cotton to (someone or something) US, informal : to begin to like someone or something
▪ We cottoned to our new neighbors right away. ▪ He doesn't cotton to the idea of having children.
long suit
▪ We cottoned to our new neighbors right away. ▪ He doesn't cotton to the idea of having children.
long suit
n.
1. Games The suit in which a player holds the most cards in a given hand.
2. The personal quality or talent that is one's strongest asset.
| douchebag | ||
An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intellegence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.
Your boss is a real douchebag!
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