what’s my name?

used as a taunt while beating someone.

In
1967, boxer Muhammed Ali fought Ernie Terrell, who insisted on calling Ali ‘Cassius Clay’; as Ali pounded Terrell, Ali taunted ‘What’s
my name, fool? What’s my name?

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dot-and-dash

money. Rhyming slang for ‘cash’

He says he wants dot-and-dash in advance before he'll do the job.

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decease

Departure from life, death.

The house will not be yours till after your mother's decease.

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adamatical

naked. Without a conventional fig leaf

Her adamatical body was found wrapped in a sheet in a field...

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chuff all

nothing, nothing at all,nothing in the least,absolutely nothing

You know what I get for helping him? chuff all - that's what. I just do it because I want to.

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break a butterfly on the wheel

to waste effort on something that there is no chance of succeeding at.

He keeps trying to get it published but I think he is just trying to break a butterfly on the wheel

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metagrobolize

to baffle and disturb,to puzzle or mystify,

Your essay metagrobolizes the readers. Nobody could figure out if you were in support of euthanasia or against it.

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