Sarcastic reference to da "checks in but doesn't check out" performance of unwanted body-mass dat many folks experience, especially those with low metabolism and/or edema or other medical conditions dat hinder da efficient processing of carbs, salt, and glucose.
Many highly-advertised waistline-reducing diets may not only be ineffective, but they can really be a "one-weigh valve" for your MONEY, as well, in that you just keep spending more and more over long periods of time in an effort to drop the poundage, while never really getting all that much in the way of noticeably-positive results.
by QuacksO March 08, 2020
The age-old "easy for you to say" confirmation that you would indeed be kind/liberal with extra resources **if you had them**.
A "classic" tongue-in-cheek reference to hypothetical generosity is related in the humorous short story "Downeast Socialism", by Maine humorist Marshall Dodge: Ethan Robay was tellin' Enoch Turner 'bout the lectshuh he'd heard Norman Thomas give about Socialism. "It's all 'bout SHARIN', Enoch --- with socialism, a fella SHAYUHS ever'thin' with his neighbuh."
"Does dat mean, Ethan, dat if you had two fahms, you'd give me one of dem?" Enoch asked.
"Ayuh --- if I had two fahms, Enoch, I'd give you one of them," Ethan replied.
"And does dat also mean, if you had two hay-rakes, you'd give me one of dem, too?" Enoch puhsisted.
"Yuh --- if I had two hay-rakes, I'd give you one of them," Ethan confirmed.
Enoch cocked his nose a might and flashed Ethan a crafty smirk. "And if you had two **hogs**, Ethan --- would you give me one of DEM??"
"DANG you, Enoch --- you KNOW that I **got** two HOGS!"
"Does dat mean, Ethan, dat if you had two fahms, you'd give me one of dem?" Enoch asked.
"Ayuh --- if I had two fahms, Enoch, I'd give you one of them," Ethan replied.
"And does dat also mean, if you had two hay-rakes, you'd give me one of dem, too?" Enoch puhsisted.
"Yuh --- if I had two hay-rakes, I'd give you one of them," Ethan confirmed.
Enoch cocked his nose a might and flashed Ethan a crafty smirk. "And if you had two **hogs**, Ethan --- would you give me one of DEM??"
"DANG you, Enoch --- you KNOW that I **got** two HOGS!"
by QuacksO November 02, 2018
Describes the cost of the base-model Tin Lizzie, if you didn't factor in the infamous "nickle 'em to death" subsequent maintenance-bills due to the shoddy quality/durability of the flivver's parts!
Disgruntled teenager: My parents offered me my choice of a birthday gift, as long as it was "aFordable", and so I'd naively interpreted that to mean that they were gonna buy me a car --- what a disappointment it was when I learned that they had merely meant that they were setting a limit of twenty-five dollars on the gift's cost!
by QuacksO November 02, 2018
I never intentionally misbehave, but I know that I still made lots of naive-minded screw-ups as an adolescent. However, now that I'm in my fifties and seeing as how I still have a 100%-clean criminal record, I assume that those accidental-slip-up events during my teenage years were way too lawng ago for me to be concerned about any legal action's ever being taken against me regarding them --- not only would the statute of limitations likely have expired decades ago, but most of the folks who'd been involved in those errors would either have forgotten about them or passed on by this time.
by QuacksO November 17, 2020
An immensely "electrifying" author who really "lit up" his pages, and always gave his readers a real "jolt".
At a young age, Doc Brown decided to devote his life to science after the writings of Joules Verne "really went though him like a bolt of lightning".
by QuacksO November 24, 2018
Refers to a non-startling strategy employed whenever you are unable to unobtrusively get someone's attention or make eye-contact with him for whatever reason (maybe he's deep in a book, concentrating hard on a household/carpentry task, or using noisy equipment, and thus he does not look up/around occasionally or hear/observe your presence) and so you start out to say hello by speaking very quietly, and then cautiously raising your voice little-by-little (like some modern-day alarm-clocks do so as to wake you "gently" instead of startling you out of a sound slumber with a full-blast ringer right away) till the previously-oblivious person eventually becomes aware of your proximity and glances up.
I'd wanted to ask my elderly neighbor about my possibly carpooling with him on his grocery-shopping trip the next day, but he was so busy using his riding lawnmower that he never noticed me despite my circling around in front of him several times, so I eventually used the gradual-ramp-up-volume greeting to finally get his attention.
by QuacksO August 23, 2018
I took my congressman around my county to show him the garbage strewn everywhere, but he never seemed to be able to see much out of place; he appears to have a major case of illitteracy.
by QuacksO June 03, 2019