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Definitions by Uncle Dimma

en temps et lieux utiles 

an English translation of a French phrase meaning

"when the time, place, context and/or circumstances are appropriate for one to learn/know/understand something"
son: Dad, I'd like to learn how to drive a car, my older brother who is 16, is learning how to drive. Why can't I?

father: Oh. you'll learn en temps et lieux utiles, all right but, at age 13, you are definitely not old enough. now, go to bed.

devil-worship 

son: is using rats in medical research in clinical and lab settings considered devil-worship?

father: to the people who are passionately obsessed with animal rights, yes; to most of the civilian population and to the Unforgivables no. the Unforgivables don't care because they are there to protect business and private property, and medical research facilities are operated, maybe even owned by big pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer. The civilian population doesn't seem to care because medical research has done more good than evil. If you want to know more, go take a medical ethics course at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
devil-worship by Uncle Dimma April 11, 2013

hitting the sauce 

1) being a gas wholesaler/pundit, talking intellectual sounding nonsense about any given scientific discipline

2) a synonym for 'hitting the fan'
boy : Is barium chloride edible?

mother: how dare you Victor? talking such nonsense when you've been educated in one of the best private schools in the country? Please do us all a favor, stop hitting the sauce, all right? And if you're going to continue hitting the sauce like that, our relationship will start hitting the sauce itself, and I'll kick you out of this house. I won't stand for it to have a pundit in my house.

weather grandpa

(or grandma if referring to a girl): an offensive term for a person who is always quetching about, as the name suggests, about the weather.

N.B: this term was named based my personal observation that it's mostly old grumpy grandmas and grandpas that quetch about the weather.
everybody hates a weather grandpa, especially when the person doing the complaining is under 40 of age and is driving everyone around them nuts.

putting words in the horse's mouth 

the anti-social habit of interrupting someone by finishing their sentences/words for them
boy, in an argument with his father:

boy: dad, sorry, I'll skip dinner tonight and (...)

father: (...) finish your chemistry and physics projects you are working on with your girlfriend Melissa? That sure would be nice.

boy: kodem koll, dad, stop putting words in the horse's mouth, it's rude. And FYI it's actually Spanish and Latin homework I was going to work on. I'll work on the chemistry and physics later, and with my friend Brandon, not my girlfriend Melissa.

go back to your cave 

a phrase meaning "shut up and don't talk to me right now"
a guy and his girlfriend in an argument:

Emily: Carl, we can't afford rent in this city any longer. I want you find a better paying job

Carl: please go back to your cave. I am on it like a car bonnet.

poker habit 

an affectionate term for any addiction, especially gambling.
son: Dad, what is a poker habit?

Dad: son, it's when people are addicted, mostly to games where you need to bet money. it becomes a disease that needs to be treated ASAP in that particular individual. Otherwise, people can lose their financial savings. marriages, property and may even end up doing harakiri to avoid shaming those close to them.
poker habit by Uncle Dimma April 7, 2013