Definitions by Fearman
klingons on the starboard bow
Expression used as a warning by person 1 when someone known mutually to 1 and 2, whom 2 does not wish to meet, comes into view. Don't Look Now, but ..., From a more literal usage in the original series of Star Trek.
Joe: I don't want to meet the Wirrals tonight, okay?
Mike (looking over Joe's shoulder): Umm ... Klingons on the starboard bow.
Joe: They're HERE?! Get me out of here.
Mike: Right this way ...,
Mike (looking over Joe's shoulder): Umm ... Klingons on the starboard bow.
Joe: They're HERE?! Get me out of here.
Mike: Right this way ...,
klingons on the starboard bow by Fearman August 13, 2007
hexploitation
Genre of movies/TV series/books and so on in which witchcraft/mystical/occult-related stuff is served up in as twee and New Agey a manner as possible for the consumption of the trendy.
hexploitation by Fearman August 10, 2007
landlord's holiday
A break, usually involving travel abroad and of indefinite duration, so as to avoid tenant responsibilities, legal action, and so on. A time of leave for analogous purposes or of similar duration.
After taking ten million quid in cash from the public in begging letters, Karl O'Driscoll vanished on a landlord's holiday to his hidey hole in the Seychelles and lived a life of leisure.
landlord's holiday by Fearman August 10, 2007
landlord's contract
A written contract that is supposed to make a transaction look above board and official, and to suggest that the buyer has a degree of comeback, but which the party offering the document can ignore at will. As they say, it's not worth the paper it's printed on.
Dickie O'Kelly presented his tenants with the landlord's contract in connection with the quality of their accommodation, and then disappeared to South Africa with their money.
landlord's contract by Fearman August 10, 2007
neuron-free zone
It's only to be expected that Dicky let Leo crash out in his pad after Leo had stolen stuff from everyone else he'd stayed with. So what if Dicky was warned about it in advance? He's a neuron-free zone.
neuron-free zone by Fearman August 10, 2007
Outside it's America
Reference to the ubiquity of things American in the world of the late twentieth/early twenty-first century CE: in the pre-Chinese era. From the U2 song Bullet the Blue Sky, about US military domination of Central America.
We take the staircase to the first floor
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
A man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside it's America
Outside it's America
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
A man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside it's America
Outside it's America
Outside it's America by Fearman August 10, 2007