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Definitions by Uncle Dimma

the medicine you digest so well 

a habit one has recently acquired.
mother: Joseph, stop interrupting. I don't like the medicine you digest so well lately. This anti-social habit won't get you anywhere in life.

Joseph: go scratch yourself. I will not stop interrupting, just because you want me to.

rotten apple 

rotten apple

an offensive term for a teenager who has disciplinary problems, mainly in school, and is being rebellious against their parents.
mother: Becky, i have bad news for you. answer my question :why have you turned out to be a rotten apple?. I didn't give birth to you so as a teenager you would be a rotten apple.

Becky: Lol. im not a rotten apple, mom. all i do in terms of rebellion is dye my hair purple and listen to rock music; in school my disciplinary problems amount to, at most, me fighting off some bastards of the male gender. you as my computer illiterate simply don't understand the children and teenagers of our generation.
rotten apple by Uncle Dimma October 31, 2012

kodem koll 

a Hebrew phrase meaning in English

first and foremost/first of all
a boy comes home from school (in the winter) and starts yelling : Dad, please help me with my chemistry and Latin homework.

father: David, kodem koll, take of your hat, coat, and boots, then go and wash your hands, have your supper, then go to your room and start your homework. And that's when I'll come and help you with said homework, if you have any difficulties that is. Please behave comme du monde, like normal and civilized people.
kodem koll by Uncle Dimma October 30, 2012

computer illiterate

a term of endearment/sarcasm/ insult, depending on the situation, for one's old man (father) or old lady (mother)
boy: yoohoo, my favorite computer illiterate, please give me cash for my weekly candy portion, or my my allowance.

father: stop calling me a computer illiterate, young man, because kodem koll I won't stand for it, you insulting me; I am a computer engineer, and two, i prefer the term father or dad. Even the expression old man won't do any longer. Now, young man, please improve your vocabulary, then come back and talk to me comme du monde.

to save your sinking Titanic 

(verb):

to do anything and everything possible to save one's school/university semester that one is about to fail big time.
mother: George, you're failing your last year in high-school. Is there anything you can to save your sinking Titanic?

George: Lol. no. I think it's a little late to do anything about it now. I should have listened to you and partied less.

just eat your carrots and broccolli 

used instead of the phrases

1) "don't ask too many stupid/irrelevant questions and just do as you are told,

2 )just shut up and accept things the way they are.

3) go to your corner and think about what you have done; you have been punished for a specific reason

4) work hard using the legendary Protestant work ethic and in the end you will be rewarded
a boy, breakfast, asks his dad:

boy: dad, why do i have to go to class?

dad: because it's fun, you can socialize with people outside the family circle, George. And you gain knowledge that will later permit you to make something out of yourself. And, please, because I am in a bad mood since yesterday, having gotten a parking ticket, please just eat your carrots and broccolli. Then just pick up your things.

chump nuts 

petty cash as spending money, especially the allowance some parents give their children
boy: my computer illiterate, please give me my chump nuts for the week that I am entitled to.

dad: go back to your cave Jason. And I don't want to talk to you until you improve your vocabulary.
chump nuts by Uncle Dimma October 27, 2012