Definitions by QuacksO
I'd eat my bread without butter!
What you growlingly exclaim when told that someone did something uncaring/deceitful because "he knows which side his bread is buttered on"; what you mean, of course, is that you would rather risk displeasing the powers-that-be than harm someone else.
Back when I was a frail and tender-minded nine-year-old, my bi**hy second-grade teacher violently shook me and gave me a long severe verbal working-over merely because I had "mouthed right back" at a "spoiled-rich-kid" youngster who had been outrageously rude to me over an extremely trivial matter. At da time I was at a total loss to know why said irritable teacher had been so ferociously defensive of Little Miss Bossy 'n' Obnoxious; it wasn't until decades later that I finally learned that said bratty pint-sized colleen was da daughter of a "somebody" in town, and so I realized dat da teacher had "known which side her bread was buttered on", and therefore when said whiny miscreant went "bawlin' 'n' blubberin'" to da teacher about it, she felt compelled to blame ME for da verbal dust-up instead of just telling dat willful child to "shut up and grow up", as she should have. As I tell my friends when relating the story nowadays, though, "I'd eat my bread without butter!" before I ever unfairly blamed an innocent person like that. Reminds me of da "Little House On The Prairie" episode about da broken music box.
I'd eat my bread without butter! by QuacksO March 18, 2019
whatchamacolumn
Da answer dat ya give on an architecture quiz when ya can't think of da exact term for a certain type of vertical support-post, such as a riser, pillar, pylon, etc.
Middle-school student: I hate tests about ancient Greek/Roman culture and architecture; what earthly use will any of that sawdusty-boring knowledge be in my future everyday/employment life??? Only in a trivia game/show or actual archaeological enterprise would I ever have occasion to need to know the specific names of all of those fancy-pants whatchamacolumns dat da ancients used in their building-construction!
whatchamacolumn by QuacksO March 18, 2019
post-graduation disillusionment
Da feeling of "empty letdown after having toiled for nothing" dat you experience as an adult after you'd studied your a** off in grade school about certain strongly-hyped-and-pushed-for-their-supposedly-great-importance subjects (history, science, botany, biology, etc.) other than da "three R's", only to find dat in reality you seldom if ever need any of dat knowledge in your everyday working/home life, and dat others merely stare at you like you're some kinda brainiac nerd when ya mention anything from your vast knowledge of said subjects dat they had long forgotten about or not even bothered to really learn very well themselves in their own school years.
My third-grade teacher always really drove us to learn about da history of San Francisco, yet never once in the ensuing decades have I **ever** hadda use my knowledge of who William Leidesdorff or Amadeo Giannini was --- talk about post-graduation disillusionment!
post-graduation disillusionment by QuacksO March 18, 2019
ego-boobst
What guy feels anytime an attractive gal --- especially a "new" chick whom he's only recently met --- willingly allows him to touch her "treasure chest", especially if said "treasures" are fairly shapely/bountiful. The theory, of course, is that such delightful "personal objects" are extra-desirable and thus are surely being actively sought after by many tongue-lolling males, and so the guy figures that he must be extra-special and valued in the buxom chick's eyes if she lets him fondle her fun-pillows, since conceivably she would not allow just anyone access to them.
I was kind and gentle to an attractive plumpish lady on a bicycle whom I met while I was also out cycling, and within an hour or two we were back at her place and she was stretched out on her bed stark-naked and letting me give her a full-body massage... what an awesome ego-boobst!
ego-boobst by QuacksO March 18, 2019
Munchousen syndrome
A disorder characterized by spending extended periods of time in a dwelling while chomping on enormous quantities of food.
I wonder if da Coneheads had Munchousen syndrome, since they were always inviting others to join then for a "group-pig-out"?
Munchousen syndrome by QuacksO March 16, 2019