Like The Wild Man of Borneo

The term is derived from an alternate epithet of an early California sideshow performer Oofty Goofty. The used of the epithet is a barely recognized example of the racial insensitivity that was prevalent at the time.

The term did not spread very far from it's home state.(The expression, Like The Wild Man of Borneo was probably used mostly in California.)

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in the cards

likely to happen, probable (possibly from the cards used by fortune tellers)

Another win for the team is in the cards.

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kid gloves

figurative gloves that you put on to treat someone or something carefully.

Tom felt like his uncle was wearing kid gloves when he treated him and his girlfriend to dinner.

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walk-through

1. a rehearsal

2. a slow, careful explanation

3. to explain something slowly and carefully

We did a walk-through of the movie before collecting ideas.

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trank

1. a tranquilizer

2. to use tranquilizers

Don't uses that trank to deal with something like a bee.

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drink like a fish

to drink to excess

He was unaware of the danger that could come to him if he were to drink like a fish and as a result he almost succumbed to alcohol poisoning.

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mellow-yellow

1. the putative use of the inside of a banana peel as a halucinagenic drug (a 1960's hoax that became connected with an urban legend about a song of a similar name after the debut of the said song, and susequently spawned more hoaxes, sense 2 is likely also linked to the song)

2. Lysergic acid diethylamide, a hallucinogenic drug

3. a five milligram tablet of valium (from the yellow color of the tablet)

I wouldn't waste my time with mellow-yellow if I were you.

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