Estar firme

to get down, or get yourself together, although to get down for someone also means to go to the ultimate for that person or for the gang. To have back-up in a sense.

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ackers

Money. From the Egyptian akka.

I got some ackers!

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paper pusher

An office worker; one who works in an office and deals with forms and reports all day; one whose work is dull and without meaning.

Office workers deal with a lot of paper -- forms, reports, letters, memos, etc. And some workers simply move all that paper from one place to another, pushing the paper from desktop to drawer and back again.

1) I'm not sure exactly what my brother does, but I know he's a paper pusher at some huge, faceless company.

2) Ted retired to Florida after putting in 30 years as a paper pusher at Greedie Corp.

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xyzzy

from the ADVENT game The canonical `magic word'. This comes from ADVENT, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there. If you type `xyzzy' at the appropriate time, you can move instantly between two otherwise distant points. If, therefore, you encounter some bit of magic, you might remark on this quite succinctly by saying simply "Xyzzy!" "Ordinarily you can't look at someone else's screen if he has protected it, but if you type quadruple-bucky-clear the system will let you do it anyway." "Xyzzy!"

Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several OSes; in Data General's AOS/VS, for example, it would typically respond "Nothing happens", just as ADVENT did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word. In more recent 32-bit versions, by the way, AOS/VS responds "Twice as much happens".

The popular `minesweeper' game under Microsoft Windows has a cheat mode triggered by the command `xyzzy<enter><right-shift>' that turns the top-left pixel of the screen different colors depending on whether or not the cursor is over a bomb.

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boys in blue

Police

"As I ran there were the boys in blue, pointing their guns at my four man crew"

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tie the knot

Tying the knot of the ropes in the marriage bed.

This is also from the old marriage custom of actually tying the couple's hands together as part of the ceremony. They were not allowed to untie it until they had consummated the marriage.

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ball-park figure

a number that is near the total; approximate figure

Fifty is a ball-park figure. It's close to our class size.

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