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That rapid internet search you do to avoid exposing your ignorance..
Prof called my work 'desultory'... I had to do a quick googletrawl to find out whether that was a compliment or not ! Not !
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..'
quick description without self-pity, for intense pain..
'What's it like having a sciatica attack ?'
'In one word -- yell-aloud...'
Someone who showers you with useless information which you never asked for...
'The guy's such an infomaniac ! I just asked him for the train times, and he told me how many wheels each engine would have...'
'Darling, I said infomaniac not nymphomaniac...I don't want to hear all your day's office gossip straight after sex, puh-leaze..'
'Jeez, get me away from that infomaniac ... who wants to hear her business gossip at a chick party ?'
When you're reading a boring book out of duty, and your eye just slides over the words without engaging your brain..
'I tried to revise for the exam last night... but it was just eye-skating -- nothing stuck in the mind..'
the aura that shines from a guy who's just become a father for the first time and found a new persona...
'Keep away from Justin's desk -- his eyes are full of daddyshine now he's a father, and you'll get no attention from him right now, on any other subject...'
as used in e.g. the Philippines for celebration wrapping-paper that promises so much at birthday and Christmas, to be eagerly torn off..
' This is the family Christmas morning ? The kids all back in their rooms and the Christmas tree surrounded by torn-up happy paper...?'