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Definitions by Uncle Dimma

stop blabbering 

(verb): to shut up and and stop engaging in meaningless and useless philosophical discussions.
boy a) Arthur why are wasting your time doing a bachelors Degree at Concordia University?

Arthur: because I don't have the bloody grades to do, lol, anything else and don't know what else to do with my life. At least, unlike you, Max, I am not in trade school and therefore receiving some form of education.

Max: that's what our government actually wants losers like you to think, that they are getting an education. Now listen up, kid: "Stop blabbering about life and the purpose of education and go to trade school, like me; you'll make something out of yourself.

street-smarts 

all the education, business savvy, know how and skills that the person has acquired through personal experience, outside the official public education system and outside the family setting (without being taught by family members).
boy one: who do you think Donald Trump is more likely to hire at the end his show The Apprentice, is it someone who is school-smart and possibly Ivy League educated, or someone who has more street-smarts?

boy two: Dunno. we'll have to watch until the end of this current season of The Apprentice and find out.

pull yourself up by your boot straps 

literally referring to what Abraham Lincoln (read a few law books he found in a junk barrel, then became a lawyer and later President of The United States and Booker T Washington (learned to read and write as a sailor's) actually did, this term means:

to legally work, or rather legally to nigger, one's way up the social ladder of one's society in one's zeitgeist using nothing but one's own blood, sweat, toil, common sense, education and street-smarts, and not relying on your country's social assistance/welfare system (provided of course you are able bodied and not mentally ill to the point of not being able to work)
son: I don't understand how Abraham Lincoln legally achieved what he did. He was born on a bloody farm.

father: Jordan, just stop blabbering and learn the meaning of the phrase to pull yourself up by your boot straps and you'll do just as well. Now good night.

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 July 5, 2012
a synonym, although a neutral or offensive one (depending on the situation and context) one, for a rookie or a newbie.
military drill sergeant (adressing a private): yo noob, wat might yor name be?

private: Sir, my name is Michael Jordan.

drill sergeant : as in Michael Jordan the basketball star?

private: yes and no. yes, since Jordan is my middle name and I am proud of it, and no because my last name is not Jordan and sorry I am not related to Michael Jordan the basketball star.
noob by Uncle Dimma July 4, 2012
a nicer way term for someone's ass/behind
mother: Evan, please get your sit-upon off the floor, I can't pass with the laundry basket; you're in the middle of the bloody hallway.

Evan: go back to your cave. Can't you see I'm playing transformers?.
sit-upon by Uncle Dimma July 4, 2012

to pay your bills on time 

to do things right/correctly/the way they are supposed to be done/ when they they are supposed to be done the first time around, so as to avoid either having to redo the same job twice or suffering other unpleasant consequences (such as literally not paying your actual bills on time and having to pay late fees).
Father: listen, Carl. If I'd be your teacher, i would have reacted the exact same way. Just look at your penmanship. Ca laisse a desirer. I can't even , lol, call it handwriting, it would probably, immb qualify as turkey-chicken scrawl. Now the moral of the fable is of course to pay your bills on time. Now, take this travail bacle afaap out of my line of site and rewrite your homework.