African-American. The former "polite" term, replaced by "Negro," then by "black," now by "African-American."
White folks in Washington
They sure know how
To call a colored man a nigger,
Just to see him bow.
-- Lead Belly, "Bourgeois Blues"
Perform an act in a perfunctory, uncommitted fashion, as if it didn't matter.
She sang the National Anthem, but she was just phoning it in as far as I could tell.
An adult female of Jewish persuasion or background. Very old-fashioned.
She's the Jewess in Jewess jeans.
-- Gilda Rader, Saturday Night Live
Ancient, retro semi-insult, used either in annoyance or to contradict an assertion.
John Kerry does NOT look French! Ahh, ya fadda's moustache!
Method of assassination, in which the throat is slit and the victim's tongue is pulled through the cut, thus creating the impression of a grotesque cravat.
They found five Albanians in the ditch being devoured by wild dogs; each had a Serbian necktie.
The fatty rump of a chicken, from whence the tail feathers come. Obviously an anti-Catholic gibe. The part that goes over the fence last.
Give the little kid the pope's nose.