June

Question 1

long shot

Answer 1

a venture or guess that has only the slightest chance of succeeding or being accurate.

e.g. “it’s a long shot, but well worth trying”

Question 2

from the hip

Answer 2

does not think/analyze before making a decision

e.g. “swashbuckling, trade-from-the-hip hedge fund managers such as George Soros”

Question 3

gravedancer

Answer 3

to profit from someone’s misfortune

e.g. “Grave dancer of the hedge funds, Citadel was known for sweeping in on distressed companies and gobbling up the remains of the bloodied carcasses”

Question 4

take someone to the cleaners

Answer 4

To take a significant quantity of a person’s money or valuables, through overcharging, litigation, unfavorable investing, gambling, fraud, etc

e.g. “Muller outchipped him eight to one after having taken Paraschivescu to the cleaners”

Question 5

smarting

Answer 5

(of a person) feel upset and annoyed.

e.g. “chiefs of staff are still smarting from the government’s cuts”

Question 6

lineups

Answer 6

A police technique in which a handful of people fitting a similar description are stood in a line together for a witness of a crime to see. The witness is then supposed to pick out the perp.

e.g. They had to let the suspect walk after the witness couldn’t pick him out of a lineup.

Question 7

shakedown

Answer 7

Another word for extortion/blackmail, or the obtaining of a good or service through means of force, threats/intimidation, or abuse of power.

Question 8

what’s the world coming to

Answer 8

I am shocked and disappointed

e.g. What’s the world coming to when you can’t leave your house for five minutes without someone trying to break in and rob you?

Question 9

trumped up

Answer 9

a false charge filed by the police because they can’t get anything else to stick.

e.g. Police wanted to bust them for their medical marijuana but they were legal so the cops came up with trumped-up charges of child abuse instead.

Question 10

sweating bullets

Answer 10

tv. to suffer about something; to be anxious or nervous about something; to sweat blood.
e. g. The kid sat in the waiting room, sweating bullets while the surgeons worked on his brother.

Question 11

kick in the teeth

Answer 11

The worst place to be kicked. Its just pure humiliation.

e.g. I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth - Alice In Chains

Question 12

knock it off

Answer 12

stop it, desist (often a stern command)

e.g. Knock it off you freaking scallywags.

Question 13

snicker

Answer 13

give a smothered or half-suppressed laugh; snigger.

e.g. “they all snickered at her”

Question 14

beat it

Answer 14

(Tell a person to leave)

e.g. If you don’t like somebody just tell them beat it

Question 15

hang up ur spurs

Answer 15

To retire from something.

e.g. Lola was the only stripper over thirty at the club. I told her it was time to finally “Hang up your spurs”.

Question 16

go straight

Answer 16

to stop breaking the law and lead a lawful life instead.

e.g. The judge encouraged the thief to go straight. After Bob was arrested, he promised his mother he would go straight.

Question 17

tapping

Answer 17

(verb) . The act of sexual intercourse.

e. g. If the sign on the door says “Occupied” it means that I am inside tapping her ass!

Question 18

retainer

Answer 18

a fee paid in advance to someone, especially an attorney, in order to secure or keep their services when required.

“they’re paid a retainer”

Question 19

run-of-the-mill

Answer 19

Not special or outstanding; average.

“your run-of-the-mine college graduate”

Question 20

a closed mouth gathers no feet

Answer 20

One who does not speak can be certain he won’t say anything embarrassing.

Question 21

a rolling stone gathers no moss

Answer 21

A person who never settles in one place will never be successful / prosper.

Question 22

slumming

Answer 22

to hang out- or go out with someone on a lesser scale than you

a senior “slumming” a freshman to get some nice tyte pussy wit lil or no hard work

Question 23

g-man

Answer 23

government man; FBI agent.

The drug bust operation was put in the hands of an FBI g-man.

Question 24

conjure man

Answer 24

Also called a witch doctor, “jujuman,” root doctor, obeahaman” and leaf doctor.

Question 25

scab

Answer 25

A worker, often temporary, who crosses a strikers’ picket line, going to work in place of the strikers.

e.g. The scabs had their cars egged when they arrived at the factory.

Question 26

gunslinger

Answer 26

1. The ‘holder’ or controller of a political smoking gun
2. A vigilante
3. The true story leaked out via an anonymous gunslinger, who also implied that the incident had connections to the Skull and Bones society of Yale.
4. The cops showed up, but the gunslinger had already tied up the perpetrators.

Question 27

knock up

Answer 27

To get someone pregnant.

e.g. Man, I really should’ve used a condom with her… I knocked her up!

Question 28

there’s something in the water

Answer 28

A typical example is if a bunch of people in the same office got married in the same year, or a bunch of women in the office all became pregnant in a short time. Somebody would be likely to make the joke “there must be something in the water”, implying it’s a result of contamination. And also implying (as a joke) that contamination could cause a bunch of people to decide to get married.

Question 29

two time someone

Answer 29

Sl. to cheat on or betray one’s spouse or lover by dating or seeing someone else.

e.g. When Mrs. Franklin learned that Mr. Franklin was two-timing her, she left him.

Question 30

to show someone up

Answer 30

To embarrass someone by being superior.

“You talked the talk but he walked the walk, he totally showed you up.”
“I can’t believe I got showed up by a little girl!”

Question 31

broad

Answer 31

Word for a woman. Less respectable than lady but much more respectable than bitch.

Man, look at those two broads. They are smokin.

Question 32

fence jumper

Answer 32

A illegal person from either mexico,cantral or south america

e.g. geroge lopez is a fence jumper

Question 33

lam

Answer 33

to run, sometimes follows “on the,” meaning “on the run.” Used by thirties-style gangsters, the same ones who said things like “Let’s case the joint, see?”

Kramer: Yeah, he went down at the Beakman. He tried to lam, but they cheesed him.

Question 34

pinched

Answer 34

caught.

Vinny shot the guy in front of a dozen people. He was sure to get pinched.

Question 35

round up

Answer 35

to collect a group of people or things; to organize people or things into a group.

e. g. The cowboys rounded up the cattle for market.
e. g. See if you can round some helpers up.

Question 36

look the other way

Answer 36

Fig. to ignore something on purpose.

e.g. John could have prevented the problem, but he looked the other way.

Question 37

hit a snag

Answer 37

Fig. to run into an unexpected problem.

e. g. We’ve hit a snag with the building project.
e. g. I stopped working on the roof when I hit a snag.

Question 38

in short order

Answer 38

very quickly.

e. g. I can straighten out this mess in short order.
e. g. The maids came in and cleaned the place up in short order.

Question 39

you don’t dip your pen in company ink

Answer 39

Don’t have a relationship with a person in the company you are working

Question 40

feeling your oats

Answer 40

When horses are fed oats, they tend to behave more energetically afterward. When people are said to be “feeling their oats”, it is because the same kind of behavior (higher energy, enthusiasm, assertiveness, or excitement) is observed.

Since you’re feeling your oats today, would you use some of that energy taking the dog for a walk?

Question 41

scale fall from someone’s eyes

Answer 41

if the scales fall from someone’s eyes, they are suddenly able to understand the truth (bible).

e.g. When I saw his photograph in the paper, the scales fell from my eyes and I realized I’d been conned.

Question 42

throw the book at

Answer 42

To give someone the maximum sentence for a crime or penalize very harshly.

e.g.. Marty really got screwed over that jaywalking charge when the judge threw the book at him and gave him a life sentence in the federal do-me-in-the-ass prison.