Heads down elbows out

One of many method by which to accomplish a task. This method refers to going at the problem in a bullish and nonobservant manner. Not a particularly good quality when you have the big picture.

Jim: Well we have a lot on our plate today

Jay: I say we tackle these problems heads down elbows out

by chiefofrcdiv May 26, 2012

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Push-down, Blow-out Stack

A FIFO (First-In, First-Out) stack in computing is also known as a Push-down, Pull-out stack - records or events or items are pushed down at the top and pulled out at the bottom. A LIFO (Last-In, First-Out) is also known as a Push-down, Pop-out stack - records are pushed down from the top and pulled out from the top.

You can imagine a FIBO or Push-down, Blow-out stack where you keep pushing events or to-do items (or emails) down at the top until the pressure reaches a certain point at which time the bottom of the stack ruptures and all the items in the queue blow out the bottom and scatter all over the floor.

For some folks, their email inbox is a Push-down, Blow-out stack where any emails that get pushed down below the fold (bottom edge of the screen) essentially disappear from their reality and might as well have blown out all over the floor.

My To-Do list is a Push-down, Blow-out stack which has reached critical mass and exploded; it's blissfully reassuring now that I have nothing in my To-Do list!

by jfkelley June 19, 2018

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up and down, in and out

Crazy mad sex on a merry go round with a fat black chick.

We went to the county fair and my girlfriend wanted to participate in a up and down, in and out.

by jello132 March 10, 2015

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Knock-down-and-drag-out

(also Knock-down-drag-out)

adjective — Something extremely violent or intense.

"A knock-down-and-drag-out fight"

by Maxy BG August 5, 2023

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talked me down out of my tree

This is an old phrase that has become condesed and reversed in the original meaning. Originally to be in a tree was to be stuck somewhere mentally, emotionally or situationally that you could not easily escape from on your own. The proverbial cat stuck in a tree that the proverbial fireman needs to rescue. Of course, cats are perfectly capable of getting out of trees, which is why we do not see many cat skeletons in trees. However, it is not uncommon to see a fellow human, so distraught be whatever is affecting them, they they have lost their way and cannot see a way out. Proverbially, they are stuck in a tree and need someone to talk them down, out of their tree.

My life had dust gone insane, fortunately Jimmy came over and talked me down, out of my tree.

Beck: Sarah Palin "talked me down out of my tree" after my "one moment of real fear"

by Thralkhar April 18, 2017

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