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You can use this when you really like something. It's the opposite of "it's not my cup of tea".
Football, it's my glass of beer.
An activity or field of study so arcane and detached from, and with no application to, the real world that it is rendered absurd. E.g., theology, analytic/linguistic philosophy.
A waste of one's time.
Refers to the recondite game studied and played in the Herman Hesse novel, The Glass Bead Game.
Synonymous idiom: Ivory Tower
The theologians contemplating how many angels can fit on the head of a needle is mere glass bead game.
The study of astrology is a glass bead game.
Postmodernist philosophy is a glass bead game.
Don't waste my time with your Eco-feminist glass bead game.
A glass of wine filled to the rim. Wine poured with a heavy hand.
Pronounced: pat-goo-lah-glass
If I'm going to pay $8 for a glass of wine...it better be a pat-goulas glass!
glasses worn by men or women, usually huge and bulky, that usually serve as a deterrent for sexual advances. could have the opposite effect for those that like the brainy look.
The girl at the party looked really hot with her heels, short skirt, and birth-control glasses.
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someone who always is looking at the negative side of things. always finding what's bad in the situation instead of the good
she is always looking at the glass half empty
When one looks over his glasses at another person to show that he is really LOOKING at that person, and usually connoting disappointment or skepticism. Classicly employed by Lester Freamon on THE WIRE when the brass tries to interfere with one of his investigations.
"Don't be giving me that over the glasses look, I promise I'll never gamble again!"
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A term to describe a homosexual who is still in the closet, yet everyone else can clearly see their sexuality. Therefore the closet they are in as a glass door closet.
Johno: "Man, I think Ryan is definitely gay, but he says he's not."
Steve: "Yeah man he's gay, he's just in a glass door closet."
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