ACT is an acronym standing for Action Counters Terror. It is believed that it originated either with the military or the emergency services, where personnel are trained to overcome fear and inertia by taking action until this becomes an automatic response. ACT demonstrates that people are capable of really remarkable deeds and that obstacles and difficulties can be beaten when they are confronted. ACT shows that fears and self-doubt can be reduced or eliminated and that forward-looking action can overcome habit and inertia to produce something new and start the process of change.
Don’t procrastinate, ACT!
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Get the ACT mug.Slang from Norfolk (the county in England not the city in Virginia) and it means to trudge laboriously over snow. See also trampoosing.
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Get the Mogging mug.US Army slang commonly used during the Vietnam War; it probably originated during World War II and stands for STRictly ACcording (to regulations). It was an epithet applied to officers and NCOs who 'go by the book' and seem totally unable to think for themselves. It describes the military equivalent of a Jobsworth, frequently linked with REMF.
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Get the STRAC mug.Unlike Itsy Bitsy and Teeny Weeny, Navvy Gravvy doesn't refer to just a small size but to a small amount. A navvy gravy is a very small amount, a little tiny bit, a very fine shaving. In common use within the Royal Dockyards where very small adjustments have to be made, by shipwrights and shipfitters, to customise components in order to get them to fit correctly. Thought to date from around the mid-nineteenth century when many tasks in shipbuilding were still carried out by 'eye', although the origins or the words themselves are not entirely clear, it is still in use today where non-standard sized items have to be adjusted to fit.
As an illustration; if a hole is drilled in a piece of metal to take a bolt, the hole is the correct size but the bolt doesn't fit. The drill is then run through the hole again and the bolt fits. Careful examination may reveal a few grains of metal dust or the tiniest finest curl of swarf removed by the drill, that tiny amount is a navvy gravvy.
As an illustration; if a hole is drilled in a piece of metal to take a bolt, the hole is the correct size but the bolt doesn't fit. The drill is then run through the hole again and the bolt fits. Careful examination may reveal a few grains of metal dust or the tiniest finest curl of swarf removed by the drill, that tiny amount is a navvy gravvy.
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Get the Navvy Gravvy mug.Z-list celebrity with an overdeveloped sense of her own importance, looks, intelligence and abilities. A repulsive hamplanet who is a complete waste of space.
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Get the Gemma Collins mug.There are a number of different meanings for the word brick so don’t just dump it there’s some good stuff here:
1 Very cold. Usually only used to describe the temperature of a place, e.g. the weather or indoors in a particular location.
2 An unintelligent person. Derived from "thick as a brick."
3 A basketball shot in which the ball bounces off the backboard and/or hits the rim, but does not go though the net.
4 A large quantity of drugs packaged in a brick shape, especially cocaine.
5 An external power transformer that provides power from a wall socket to a laptop, wireless router, projector, etc
6 A piece of electronic equipment that has been rendered inoperable. This usually happens when trying to update the firmware or BIOS of the device, when "jail-breaking", installing new mobile phone ROMs, etc.
7 A large mobile phone.
8 British slang for a reliable person.
9 To bail, ditch, let down, not show up or do something as promised/agreed to.
10 To hit something or someone with bricks.
11 To avoid doing something because of fear, derives from shitting bricks.
1 Very cold. Usually only used to describe the temperature of a place, e.g. the weather or indoors in a particular location.
2 An unintelligent person. Derived from "thick as a brick."
3 A basketball shot in which the ball bounces off the backboard and/or hits the rim, but does not go though the net.
4 A large quantity of drugs packaged in a brick shape, especially cocaine.
5 An external power transformer that provides power from a wall socket to a laptop, wireless router, projector, etc
6 A piece of electronic equipment that has been rendered inoperable. This usually happens when trying to update the firmware or BIOS of the device, when "jail-breaking", installing new mobile phone ROMs, etc.
7 A large mobile phone.
8 British slang for a reliable person.
9 To bail, ditch, let down, not show up or do something as promised/agreed to.
10 To hit something or someone with bricks.
11 To avoid doing something because of fear, derives from shitting bricks.
1 It's brick outside today, I’m going to have to put on my thermals.
2 That twonk is such a brick!
3 He keeps on hitting bricks, the useless wanker.
4 I'm gonna score a brick tonight.
5 The sodding brick is fucked.
6 I think I’ve fucked up the brick.
7 That’s not a mobile phone, it’s a brick.
8 You can always rely on Charlie, he's a real brick.
9 Looks like he's gonna brick on the party, but the rest of us are coming.
10 That fat bastard has pissed them off once too often, they’re going to brick him.
11 I knew he’d brick it, no way would he do a parachute jump.
2 That twonk is such a brick!
3 He keeps on hitting bricks, the useless wanker.
4 I'm gonna score a brick tonight.
5 The sodding brick is fucked.
6 I think I’ve fucked up the brick.
7 That’s not a mobile phone, it’s a brick.
8 You can always rely on Charlie, he's a real brick.
9 Looks like he's gonna brick on the party, but the rest of us are coming.
10 That fat bastard has pissed them off once too often, they’re going to brick him.
11 I knew he’d brick it, no way would he do a parachute jump.
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Get the Brick mug.A cuspidor is a large bowl, often of metal, serving as a receptacle for spit, usually from snuff dipping or tobacco chewing. Generally considered to be the same as a spittoon, although spittoons tend to be shorter than cuspidors. The word comes from the Portuguese “cuspir” meaning to spit which itself comes from the Latin “conspuere” meaning to spit upon.
Toreador,
Don’t spit upon the floor,
Use the cuspidor,
That’s what it’s for.
(By kind permission of Bart Simpson)
Don’t spit upon the floor,
Use the cuspidor,
That’s what it’s for.
(By kind permission of Bart Simpson)
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