Refers to da friendly wave, nod,. smile, etc. dat you courteously preform in response to a passing motorist/pedestrian who honks or calls hello to you, but you are unable to identify said greeter because the person has already moved too far away by the time you "get turned around" to see who it was.
A sportsman friend of mine experienced a classic case of "generic greeting" whenever he visited my area --- "The only thing I can figure is that I must have a vehicle that looks a lot like a local resident's, because everyone waves eagerly to me when I drive through town, and yet I don't really know anyone here. But heck, that's perfectly okay with me --- I dunno why they wave, but I just always wave back!"
by QuacksO August 05, 2019
Get the generic greetingmug. Ethan Couch pleaded affluenza in defense of his monstrous actions, but it sounded a lot more like rebella to me --- both he and his over-indulgent dad had been bucking the system in ways that didn't even make sense; rather than refusing to do something unreasonable, they were merely wanting a "bigger slice of the social pie" than they deserved; i.e., they were protesting against necessary and appropriate requirements that everyone has o abide by in order to co-exist harmoniously with fellow humans and not be a burden or danger to athers.
by QuacksO October 10, 2018
Get the rebellamug. What you sympathetically tell someone who's wrestling with one or more "typical" or "oft-experienced" conundrums involving borrowed money/objects.
If someone needs to be told, "You're not aloane", this often indicates that he has not followed Shakespeare's famous "neither a borrower nor a lender be" proverb.
by QuacksO November 20, 2021
Get the You're not aloanemug. What da absurdly-complex questions on a job-application form might as well be for any ordinary person to "decipher".
I've occasionally been derisively upbraided about my inherent difficulty in obtaining employment ("You don't even know how to fill out a job application!"), yet whenever I snortingly retort, "Okay, well, if YOU'RE so smart and capable" and then ask said criticizing/ridiculing individuals to assist me with said writing task, they themselves are often unable to figger out da hireoglyphics on da forms, either!
by QuacksO April 09, 2022
Get the hireoglyphicsmug. What you'll likely create if ya set da thermostat on yer dehumidifier too high when drying veggie-greens.
One should carefully monitor his equipment during da drying-process so as not to end up with Swiss charred!
by QuacksO April 17, 2025
Get the Swiss charredmug. I can always tell if the litter box needs to be changed just as soon as I walk in the front door of the house; there's always a very distinkt odor that lets me know immediately and in no uncertain terms!
by QuacksO November 08, 2018
Get the distinkt odormug. Refers to someone who provides a low-income person with the most ideal and reasonable/healthy type of monetary assistance --- he simply "fills in the gaps" in the indigent person's financial life, such as purchasing economy-grade groceries, buying a few separate tools (extra points if the person requests/accepts used tools from a thrift store or yard sale) to replace broken/worn/missing ones in the person's toolbox, providing maintenance/repair materials to fix/upgrade things around the person's house, and so on.
Financially-solvent dude: I really appreciate how Tiffany only asks me to be a financial dentist for her, rather than expecting me to buy her everything under the sun. Plus not only does she never try to pressure me to go along on any of her boring mall-shopping trips, but she also always cuddles up with me while I'm browsing Amazon/E-Bay to locate the lowest price on the occasional replacement item or tape/disc that she wants, and accompanies me hand-in-hand to Goodwill or the local pawn-shops/thrift-stores whenever I go scrounging for bargains on the few simple household/recreational items that she does ask me for... her warm-hearted gratitude-filled companionship during these somewhat-tedious endeavors is an welcome bonus all on its own, of course, but her always being at my side also means that she's right there to actually observe and inspect each of the items that I'm thinking of choosing for her, and so she can more easily/reliably determine if the item I'm looking at is indeed the best choice to fulfill her needs.
by QuacksO August 15, 2017
Get the financial dentistmug.