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an catty exchange among Democratic primary contenders.
He accused her of voting for the war. She cast him withering glance as a third candidate interjected about the importance of supporting the troops. The debate rapidly descended into a five-way cratfight.
A house purchased to be demolished where the land is used to build a larger, more expensive house. Teardowns are purchased because the land they sit on is worth more without the house.
My parents house in the old neighborhood is worth $600,000 but it would definitely be a teardown.
The mercenaries walked around the hall scowling - all part of a ritual man dance.
the essential facts, the straight dope.
Cut to the chase means what's the bottom line or conclusion.
"What's the birdseye lowdown?" is similar but also involves the key details.
Here's the birdseye lowdown on the Vig ...
to tease
someone who relentlessly teases is a jagoff - a real jerk
Pittsburghese
something considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality. According to Susan Sontag, "The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques." (Notes on Camp)
Campy movies: Attack of the 50-foot Woman, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Tingler, Barbarella
Other examples: Baltimore, The National Enquirer, fake fur, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Tiki, and polyester plaids
"I love disco precisely why everyone else seems to dislike it: disco is just so darn campy."
1. a common last word in the first line of limericks
2. an island and town in Massachusetts, which, if the limericks are to be believed, is inhabited by sexually perverse and possibly nymphomaniacal people
The man from Nantucket is a frequent poster to Urban Dictionary.