Railtracksurvivor's definitions
Something between a word and a phrase. In the increasingly action-driven (rather than dictionary-led) lexicon that is modern English (aka World), there is a category of items that are neither a (single) word, nor a (full) phrase.
"I'll go to the bank - but taking my cheques, this time," said David. "That's joined-up thinking."
"'Joined-up-thinking' - that's a wase that Blair doesn't use these days, now he's envoying in the Middle East!" quipped his colleague
"'Joined-up-thinking' - that's a wase that Blair doesn't use these days, now he's envoying in the Middle East!" quipped his colleague
by railtracksurvivor December 21, 2007
Get the wasemug. Food cooked in a micro-wave oven, but sold for profit in, for example, a pub. Particularly applicable where the menu puffs the food - 'scrumptious' 'lip-smacking', etc. Contrasts with 'home-made', which at least implies that the food was cooked from basic ingredients.
by railtracksurvivor January 2, 2007
Get the Ping Cuisinemug. A language, derived from English (or English-English, American-English etc. etc. ad nauseam).
This is the de facto language of international commerce, finance, shipping, aviation, the web, etc.
It has many dialects.
Chinglish, Singlish, Franglais and Spanglish spring to mind.
Acccents include Canadian - which might be boring, Strine, Kiwi, Estuary, Scouse, Cockney and Hindglish.
There is one recognised speech impediment
- this is known as geordie
This is the de facto language of international commerce, finance, shipping, aviation, the web, etc.
It has many dialects.
Chinglish, Singlish, Franglais and Spanglish spring to mind.
Acccents include Canadian - which might be boring, Strine, Kiwi, Estuary, Scouse, Cockney and Hindglish.
There is one recognised speech impediment
- this is known as geordie
If you understand this, you understand World.
by Railtracksurvivor February 21, 2009
Get the Worldmug. TASIAC or Tasiac or even tasiac is an acronym:
Tax
And
Spend
Is
A
Catastrophe.
This is exemplified by the (UK) Brown Administration (1997-2010), which, despite having a plausible blair, or Spieler in fairground terminology, to grease the ways, tested to destruction the 'Tax and Spend' notion of socialist economics.
The main architect - given that the blair couldn't calculate the change when buying a newspaper, was the monocular caledonian onanist, Brown.
Tax
And
Spend
Is
A
Catastrophe.
This is exemplified by the (UK) Brown Administration (1997-2010), which, despite having a plausible blair, or Spieler in fairground terminology, to grease the ways, tested to destruction the 'Tax and Spend' notion of socialist economics.
The main architect - given that the blair couldn't calculate the change when buying a newspaper, was the monocular caledonian onanist, Brown.
"Blair allegedly held the levers of power - but was too supine to prevent Gordon Brown exemplifying the Tasiac Law," said Ottaway, a well-regarded gardener.
Without using the term Tasiac, the 'Daily Telegraph' inveighs frequently against the horrendously incontinent spending of the Nu-Labour administration, in a daily bulletin on the iniquities of the Man who ditched Prudence - and bankrupted an Empire's heirs for generations.
Without using the term Tasiac, the 'Daily Telegraph' inveighs frequently against the horrendously incontinent spending of the Nu-Labour administration, in a daily bulletin on the iniquities of the Man who ditched Prudence - and bankrupted an Empire's heirs for generations.
by Railtracksurvivor August 21, 2009
Get the Tasiacmug. To foretell - accurately.
A regular verb.
Just as remember is in the past - after an event looking back, so premember is something you do before an event, looking ahead.
A regular verb.
Just as remember is in the past - after an event looking back, so premember is something you do before an event, looking ahead.
Just as the French have a phrase 'deja vu' we English use premember; so - "Shall we premember the score of tonight's big match?"
or
"There he sits, premembering his order at the chip shop."
"Yeah, and I'll have a large cod with vinegar, no salt; d'you reckon he'll premember that?"
or
"There he sits, premembering his order at the chip shop."
"Yeah, and I'll have a large cod with vinegar, no salt; d'you reckon he'll premember that?"
by railtracksurvivor January 16, 2009
Get the premembermug. Getting your revenge in first.
Do unto him before he can do unto you, if you like.
A guy looks at you nastily across a rugby scrum; next maul, you tear his ear off, before he does the same, or worse, to you. You have completed pretaliation. Anything he does after that is retaliation, which referees always come down on harder than on the original malefactor.
Do unto him before he can do unto you, if you like.
A guy looks at you nastily across a rugby scrum; next maul, you tear his ear off, before he does the same, or worse, to you. You have completed pretaliation. Anything he does after that is retaliation, which referees always come down on harder than on the original malefactor.
"Did you see Tonto get his pretaliation in on that mean-looking winger?"
"Yeah, he'll be counting his ribs for a month! What a kick! Bet Tonto keeps out of his way for the rest of the game, though!"
"Yeah, he'll be counting his ribs for a month! What a kick! Bet Tonto keeps out of his way for the rest of the game, though!"
by railtracksurvivor November 1, 2007
Get the pretaliationmug. A Bojo is a bicycle, specifially a public-access bicycle, sponsored by Barclays Bank in London. It is mainly blue, and has inadequate panniers. In December 2010, Bojos became available for casual use.
They take their name from BOris JOhnson, Mayor of London when they were introduced, and an advocate of cycling generally.
NB The Mayor of London is emphatically not the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
They take their name from BOris JOhnson, Mayor of London when they were introduced, and an advocate of cycling generally.
NB The Mayor of London is emphatically not the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
There's a bojo rack round the back of the Bank of England.
You didn't see many bojos in summer - but now they're everywhere!
You didn't see many bojos in summer - but now they're everywhere!
by railtracksurvivor December 4, 2010
Get the Bojomug.