a boiled bullfrog

“Love you Want you Need you,” snivels Patrick in his 14th text message of the day.
“It’s this very bleakiness that turns me off,” sniffs Tinsley. “It’s become an endless drag, a plague – he’s a boiled bullfrog and he’s the last to grasp it.”

A boiled bullfrog!” says heartthrob Benjamin when notified that Arabella refused to accept his bouquet of Equadorian red roses. "First, the Hanky Panky thongs, which I could return, and now this. I never thought I’d see the day when I would play that croaking fool, but Arabella has had me slaving at her feet for months and I will never be free.”
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Overselfmedication

A high that’s a cut above the daily recommended dosage.
“I used to be overmedicated, lithium, Wellbutrin, benzo’s up the wazoo,” drawls Gigantor as he lolls back in the well-worn hammock. “But I dropped all that. I find that staying wasted on Durban poison and Cuervo-and-fresh-squeezed-lime margaritas fixes me up fine with fewer side effects. The joys of overselfmedication.”

When Charles arrived to pick Shi’diqua up for the gig, he found the lass indacouch as always. “You’re so overmedicated,” Charles said condescendingly.

“Baby,” Shi’diqua murmured, wishing Charles would get dopesick for once. He had gone so vanilla since Wesleyan. “Just overselfmedication. Can I fix you a dirty martini—or two—before we launch outta here? There’s time for a toot, too. I just cleaned a quarter.”
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Coffeeshamed

When your fire breathing dragon of a brew is deemed unsuitable.
Brian took a sip and set his cup down by his chair. He cleared his throat. “Could I get a bit more milk for this?” he queried coffee freak Samantha. “Or some more hot water to dilute it?”
Coffeeshamed again. Then again, Brian was from Tampa.

“They sold me a bag of Komodo Dragon beans by mistake at Starbucks,” fumed Angie, speeding to her home in Appleton Wisconsin. “I wanted Verona! And I’m having the inlaws over for brunch. That stuff is high-fidelity. I know I’ll be coffeeshamed.
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Porch cop

Nosy neighbor who keeps an eye out for pirates on your porch.
Porch cop said she was bringing over homemade chocolate chippers, but she really wanted to get a look at our entry way.

GoPuff never sucks,” glowed Brian. “As soon as Irene the porch cop sees the delivery guy drive up, she gives us a jingle to let us know the booze is here.”
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Ellavate

To emulate the sublime scatting of the Queen of Jazz.
Me: You’ve got to come see my niece Addie solo with the high school jazz band—for a ninth grader, she seriously ellavates that shit.
Family friend: Must be in the blood – You used to know something about ellavating when you were a young chanteuse.

“Whitney could trill for sure,” asserted the pompous pop critic, “but she never had it in her to ellavate.”
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The Big Excuse

“I hated all those bleeping webinars,” snaps Micro, “and the boss would always check the Zoom chat to see who actively attended. Now I beg off with The Big Excuse, saying it’s long-haul and I’m too foggy to grok what’s going on. She was sensitive about it. Ha!”

“Swim meets always drove me bonkers,” says Bailey. “But Cypress cried if I didn’t go – until I duped her with The Big Excuse, saying that mommies who’d had Delta had to stay home and rest, and nanny Martha could support a little princess’s backstroke just fine.”
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le pudge pandemique

How to make lightly of that extra 10-15-20 of le poids.
Ursie: I consumed five rather three chocochip cookies every night of the shut-in rather than my usual two — and that was after dessert. But c’est le pudge pandemique! C’est la vie!
Brittini: I grok it totally. I had to move to a 2x at Savage x Fenty—luckily Rocco doesn’t mind a bigger me as long as there’s black lace involved. He says he prefers le pudge pandemique.

“It was just mama and me every night for dinner,” says Panda. “Le pudge pandemique! Crested at 240 pounds.”
Jacko said, “I know, Good One, you’ve raved about her butter chicken, not to mention the naan! I envy your fat rolls. Evelynne and I were scared to step foot in Foodtown, so we ate grape nuts most nights. We’re skeletons.”
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