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Hindrances to free trade caused by multiple scuttling of ships in a harbor or other navigational area.
In the ancient tale of Theseus and the Minotaur, the fleeing heroes used sanktions to clutter the Cretian waterway behind them and thus prevent King Minos from pursuing them.
by QuacksO September 9, 2019
Get the sanktions mug.Where someone eagerly/effusively greets you in a super-jovial "hearty handshake" manner merely to hopefully put you more in the mood to give him a loan or ride or other gratuity that he doesn't deserve and probably will not be able/willing to pay you back for.
In one of the classic Burns & Allen shows, Gracie laughingly reads over some old love-letters from George, which are in poetry-form and are invariably glad-handouts, as in, "I love you lots, I love you plenty; I love you true, send me twenty!"
by QuacksO August 2, 2019
Get the glad-handout mug.The infamous American former commander-in-chief with such rip-roaring “raging whoremoans” that he possessed an insatiable craving for women’s “equatorial regions”.
Bill Clitton may have felt smugly self-satisfied and derisively-amused about all of his extramarital “triumphs”, but I'm guessing that his wife didn’t find the whole business one bit “Hillary-ous”.
by QuacksO November 8, 2018
Get the Bill Clitton mug.Convenience stores collect "dayta" on which "sundries" people typically purchase during da period from dawn to dusk, but I dunno if they monitor "nighta" --- i.e., info about da "moondries" dat people most-frequently shell out for during da wee hours. :P
by QuacksO June 1, 2023
Get the dayta mug.Da grudgingly-resentful politeness dat you receive from an overworked-and-underpaid employee or other businessperson who is expected to behave civilly to you, but doesn't feel like doing so for whatever reason.
Ethan Couch had aggravated da school faculty so much dat it's a wonder if they were able to extend more than just common curtesy towards him.
by QuacksO February 6, 2020
Get the curtesy mug.Da little-known pint-sized lazy-a** relative of da famous --- or infamous --- colonial warmonger-bigwig; if Priscilla Mullins hadn't wanted to marry da latter dude, then she SURE AS SHOOTIN' wouldn't have been interested in da FORMER!
If his bombastic-but-bashful "big guy" relative had not da courage to ask for a lady's hand in marriage himself, probably Kilometers Sittish wouldn't have possessed da nerve to even **ask someone else** to assist him in dis way, and so he likely remained a bachelor all his life.
by QuacksO October 16, 2021
Get the Kilometers Sittish mug.To revive a comatose person by administering a dose of shrewd deductive reasoning, due to his having fainted from learning dat his favorite detective-themed TV show had been cancelled.
In da Sherlock Holmes story, "The Reigate Puzzle", Watson warns Holmes to take it easy and not stress his mind with crime-solving during a vacation-trip to da country; Holmes actually feels worse from mental inactivity, however, and so his solving a murder mystery in da local area is da only thing dat truly resussitates him.
by QuacksO December 4, 2022
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