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Refers to an appearance-altering device/substance dat's intended to make someone/something look/sound/act like an adult human male.
In da Sherlock Holmes story, "A Scandal In Bohemia", Irene Adler states dat she often dresses up as a man because said disguyse allows her to move about London more freely and inconspicuously than if observers realized dat she was actually a lady.
by QuacksO August 14, 2022
Get the disguyse mug.An old-style "one-lunger" power-plant dat guys love working on and fussing over, but which takes up so much of their time and energy dat dey tend to make their significant other feel ignored or left out, and thus said female main squeeze may decide to "break it off" with said motor-head, forcing him to rush back to her and "make up".
Bert Dow was not married; his sister Lela lived with him to cook and keep house. So while she may have been irritated at da noise of --- and da time dat Bert spent servicing --- da make-and-break engine on his "Tidely Idley" boat, she was probably not gonna go so far as to bail on him because of it.
by QuacksO February 1, 2023
Get the make-and-break engine mug.Derisive term for a sizable number of acquaintances of someone with a dubious reputation who make praising statements about the individual's character/morals, offer to co-sign a loan he's requesting, etc., but who are of comparably-questionable integrity themselves, are also broke, etc., and so their own word and/or reliability is viewed as not being much more of a legitimate guarantee than the promises of the person they're vouching for. In other words, "quantito, but not qualito"... lots of impressive-looking "containers", but with no actual/tangible/legitimate "goods" inside of said containers.
Loan officer: I always feel really wary/suspicious whenever someone of unknown/questionable reputation asks for a loan and offers to bring in a number of other folks to vouch for his character, reliability, and financial responsibility --- "methinks he doth protest too much", plus usually his so-called "witnesses" appear to merely be an "empty-boxcars train of assurers"... they seem no more trustworthy than I would view the loan-requester himself as being, and so their voluminous praise/recommendations hold little significance and inspire little confidence in me regarding whether the loan-requester would actually possess adequate means/motivation/dedication to repay the money. I feel something like how the lady-attorney in "Losing Isaiah" did when she pointed out that the members of the "support group" whom ex-druggie/shoplifter Khaila had named as the people who were assisting her in her efforts to "go straight" and "live clean" had themselves all been former drug-users and/or criminals, and so she felt that they should not be considered to be viable/reliable helpers to prevent Khaila from relapsing.
by QuacksO September 21, 2018
Get the empty-boxcars train of assurers mug.Lazy people may love ToleDON'T, but I'm a totally frenetic and impatient go-getter, so everyone's lacklusterily lazin' around would drive me nuts; I'd prefer to live in ToleDO!
by QuacksO August 8, 2025
Get the Toledon't mug.Refers to the astonished stare that you assume when taste-testing two or more brands of a particular supermarket-offering and unexpectedly discover that you actually **prefer** the lower-priced store-brand (which traditionally would be expected to have a "weaker 'n' thinner" flavor/texture), rather than a costlier "big name" product.
Being on SSI and Food Stamps and thus having a very-limited budget, I am used to just buying the "el-cheapo" store-brand of groceries whenever I can stand their usually-milder-tasting flavors. Occasionally I do "splurge" and buy the pricier "fancy-pants" foods, though, when the taste is dramatically better, such as Nutella hazelnut spread or Armour Vienna sausage. One startling exception to this latter condition, though, was in the case of Dinty-Moore beef stew as opposed to just the Great Value brand... I bought a can of DM just to try it out in comparison to the WalMart brand, and I had a total case of generic-grocery gawk --- the Dinty-Moore brand was absolutely a-w-f-u-l, whereas the richly-tasty Great Value stew won hands-down! Boy, ya never know till ya try it, do ya???
by QuacksO February 25, 2019
Get the generic-grocery gawk mug.A recreational activity where you get to pretend dat you're launching shoulder-fired rockets at assorted targets.
Anytime I get so mad dat I wanna go knock someone's block off, I indulge in a fantasy RPG game for half an hour, and secretly visualize da game's enemy targets dat go up in huge fireballs as being da people I'm mad at; this helps me calm down like nobody's business.
by QuacksO August 20, 2023
Get the fantasy RPG game mug.Da infamous "insider trading" crook who got busted 'cuz he couldn't resist regaling everyone with braggardly tales about da windfall profits of his clever sneakiness.
If Ivan Boastky had just kept his mouth shut, he might have gotten away with his chicanery, just as Odysseys could likely have escaped da cyclops's wrath if he'd just quietly sailed away, rather than loudly shouting his triumph at having outsmarted said murderous giant.
by QuacksO January 27, 2022
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