Definitions by Fearman

grow balls 

Command to someone (not necessarily male) to show a bit of backbone.

Nicole's re-landscaped the lawn with forty different awkward pieces of sculpture and you're worried because she's threatening you with all kinds of bullshit if you don't mow it for her. For heaven's sake, Jimmy, grow balls!

grow balls by Fearman December 16, 2007

mime

Someone who, once arrested, has the right to remain silent.

As a mime artist, you have rights.

mime by Fearman December 16, 2007

poet 

A
Poet

Used to be
someone who
Wrote a lot of lines that rhymed & were otherwise
possessed of a musical quality that did not
necessarily require
strings or drums in the
background
& was altogether too smart for words

Now a poet is
just
someone who
fucks about with the length
of
lines
so as to make
the utterly
banal
appear to have unplumbed depths of meaning
which I suppose
is at least moderately
more
democratic

Everyone's a poet ... only they just don't know it.

poet by Fearman December 16, 2007

Cold War 

1. Period of mostly low-key or cultural brinkmanship between the United States and (most typically) the now-defunct Soviet Union, which formally ended in 1991 and had been going on since 1946 or 1917, depending on who you ask. Occasionally got hot or at least fairly warm in places like Vietnam, Berlin or Korea. Supposedly the fight between democracy and Communism, but nobody hears about such brinkmanship with China these days.

2. Any protracted, sullen standoff between people.

3. The ongoing medical attack on the vast family of rhinoviruses responsible for a condition known medically as acute nasopharyngitis.

They were Cold War kids, growing up in the 1970s.

There's a bit of a cold war between Jim and his parents these days.

They're still fighting the cold war, but for the moment we'll have to deal with blocked noses on a personal basis.

Cold War by Fearman December 16, 2007

love bombing

Behaviour by members of a religious cult towards potential recruits, whereby the members of the group are at first reluctant to bring up their dogmas or even their cult membership, but try to look sexy or warm-hearted or open-minded (favourite New Age buzzword). Once the new member is befriended, out come the wacky conspiracy theories, the cult line on sex and so on.

She was fifty if she was a day, busty and dressed in sensual scarlet, and asking me about my girlfriends. She was love bombing, of course. She finally got drunk and let slip she was a born-again Christian about two hours later.

love bombing by Fearman December 16, 2007

tart with the cart 

Popular local name for the statue of Molly Malone selling shellfish out of a cart, mounted on the pavement between the main gates of Trinity College and Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland.

Ya gadda love the tart with the cart. Nice jugs on her. The oysters would probably taste as good as they ever did.

tart with the cart by Fearman December 10, 2007

chime in the slime 

Local term for a digital counter with a green readout submerged in the River Liffey immediately upstream of O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, Ireland some time in the mid-1990s and intended to count away the remaining seconds to the start of the year 2000 CE. Within a matter of weeks it was clogged up with scum and dirt, broke down and had to be removed.

What do you think was better: the stiletto in the ghetto or the chime in the slime?

chime in the slime by Fearman December 10, 2007