iron horse

a train, a locomotive

I took the iron horse to see my grandparents.

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Gitmo

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp located on the Naval Base of The same name, which is in turn located on an island in the Guantanamo bay (this detention camp has become notorious for it's prisoners and ex-prisoners widely believed accusations of torture)

Gitmo may end up being closed.

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laugh all the way to the bank

To be amused and gratified with a forseen victory (from a complete reversal of the phrase cry all the way to the bank)

If I could pull of something like that I'd laugh all the way to the bank.

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get off easy

to get the minimum punishment

You won't get off easy for allowing dangerous behavior around a working factory oven.

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free fall

an uncontrolled decrease or decline

With seemingly every situation around the world in free fall, people seem to be in lowers spirits than ever.

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double talk

deceptive speech designed to mean something that it does not explicitly say

Lay off the double talk already.

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brown out

1. for the electricity to dim or fade

2. an instance of the electricity dimming or fading, a partial black out

I hate it when we get a brown out. flicccc

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