Nice try RCMP

When someone tries to get information about your firearms in Canada for unknown reasons.

Potential RCMP" hey guys heres a useful tool to catalog your firearms"

User " nice try RCMP "

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try hard with a vengeance

A try hard who combats their own innate lack of cool by trying REALLY FUCKING HARD to impress people. And fails. Everyone knows someone like this.

"You see Paul's formed his own hip-hop posse? Only criteria seems to be clothes that are way too big for you."

"But... isn't he ginger?"

"Yeah. He's such a try hard with a vengeance"

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old college try

To gather your friends, buy some cheap beer, order a pizza, and forget about tomorrow.

Calvin: Dad, what does it mean to "give it the old college try?"
Dad: It's when you gather your friends, buy some cheap beer, order a pizza, and forget about tomorrow.
Mom: That is NOT what it means.
Dad: Where did you go to college?

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trying like a bear

the name given to when a male tries extremely hard, beyond acceptable levels, to pull a female.

steve was totally trying like a bear last night with stacey.

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Try hard punk

1.Someone who has the right idea, someone who is real punk but has this need to pick on others such as "pop-punkers"
2.People who listen to hard core punk but are always ready to argue with someone else that might not be as "hard core punk" as them.

Try hard punk: Yes, I like this band, that band and another band, but I HATE YOU BECAUSE YOU LISTEN THAT BAND!
Some other guy, anything except "Try hard punk": Okay. You gonna shut up now, or do I have to ram my signed Good Charlotte t-shirt down your throat?

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old college try

A wild and desperate attempt to make a play. Sometimes the term carries a hint of showboating.

Babe Ruth (_Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball_, 1928) defined "giving it the old college try" as "playing to the grandstand or making strenuous effort to field a ball that obviously cannot be handled."

The term was quickly applied to any effort with limited chances of success.

From _The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary_ (1999) by Paul Dickson.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messages/1162.html

In a column that appeared in the _Columbus_ (Ohio) _Citizen_ (Nov. 26, 1927) and was quoted in _American Speech_ (Apr. 1930), Billy Evans wrote that "I gave it the old college try" is a term "often used in big league baseball, when some player keeps on going after a fly ball, usually in foul territory, with the odds about ten to one he would never reach it. Teammates of such a player often beat him to it by shouting in unison with the thought of humor uppermost: 'Well, kid, you certainly gave it the old college try,' as he falls short of making the catch. When some player does something that a professional player might not ordinarily attempt, such as colliding with a fielder who had the ball ready to touch him out, in the hope that he might make him drop the ball, regardless of the danger he was courting, someone is sure to say, often ironically, if the speaker happens to be one of the players in the field: 'That's the old college spirit.'"

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just trying to chill

Like, I'm not interested. Thanks. Or, get off my back.

"You get real intense real quick and I'm just trying to chill."

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