Barbra

an implied reference to the famed Streisand song 'The Way We Were'

'We broke up last week, but we're back now and it's all Barbra..'

'I faced going back home to meet the grizzlies after all these years, but we've made up and it's all Barbra...'

'jeez, honey, can't we drop this little mistake of mine, and be back to Barbra ?'

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three-flush floater

a metaphor culled from domestic plumbing, for crap it's hard to dismiss..

Clive James is such a wit. He called somebody's crap novel a 'three-flush floater'... !

whingefest

Now most common in chatgroups -- previously observed at the village well, later the parish pump : a group enjoying a good old communal moan about anything and everything.

'I've given up that chatline -- it's now just a whingefest about everything that's wrong with urban life...'

'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'

'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...

heartsploitation

used of films, memoirs, poetry, distorting or falsifying the truth to grab your emotions -- successfully !

'You read that Frey 'memoir' that Oprah was plugging, yet ?'

'Memoir shit ! Great story, blame his publisher for marketing a novel as a memoir -- sheer heartsploitation ! My girl wept buckets, then blamed me for spilling the beans...'

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Hallowgoodbuymas

A couple of puns to point a cynical view of that period from around Halloween to the New Year Sales which comes and goes in a tsunami of commerce...

'Jeez ! Halloween already ! We're into the hysteria of Hallowgoodbuymas now...'

'I'd love to be somewhere at this time of year far away from the stores, and lists of obligatory presents... I call it Hallowgoodbuymas...'

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nooyer

Sums up everything you hate about New Year's Eve celebrations -- 'nooyer' signifies the meaningless behaviour of louts at that time,'Nooyer' signifies celebs having the time of their lives on camera (and often pre-recorded in late summer...)

'We went down to the pub for a celebratory drink -- but it was full of nooyer shouting and binge and vomit...'

'Nothing on TV tonite but Nooyer plastic jollity and second-rank celeb media exposure...'

sweetypuss

opposite of sourpuss. When someone asks you what -- say -- your fierce new grade teacher is like, and neither 'sweetie' nor 'pussy-cat' quite fit the bill..

'My new grade teacher ? She comes across all disciplinarian -- but one-to-one she's a real sweetypuss..'