silverfish

A primitive insect with a silvery, iridescent body, found living in damp or rotting wood. Silverfish are often associated, like roaches, with squalor, tenement living, and general poverty.
"Oh my God," Mary exclaimed, "the bathroom is practically swarming with silverfish."
by Rod Brock July 27, 2006
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wallflower

Perennial plant native to southern Europe, bearing fragrant yellow and orange flowers. The name is derived from the fact that the plant, when naturalized to a region, is often found growing out of the nooks and crannies in an old wall, or a cliff. The natural tendency for this plant to separate itself from the other denizens of a formal garden, and grow in isolated locations, doubtless led to the use of the term "wallflower" to describe an anti-social, or shy individual, who lingers in the background, against the wall, as it were, at social occasions.
The heady fragrance of wallflowers growing on the embankment wafted up to me.
by Rod Brock July 24, 2006
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Rat-hole

by Rod Brock May 15, 2006
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half and half

A cheap brand of "all-purpose" smoking tobacco - one of the earliest packaged, branded pipe tobaccos in the U.S. - with the slogan "a cargo of contentment in the bowl of any pipe." A long-standing joke involving the product's name asserts that it is named "half and half" because it is comprised of "half horseshit and half bullshit" (in reality, the mixture is half "bright" and half "burley" tobaccos). Some old-timers speculate that the half and half joke may have given rise to the novelty "horseshit cigarettes" sold in the U.S. in the 1920s-30s (not real horseshit), which featured the slogans "not a fart in a carload," and "try one, you mooching bastard."

Half and half is still sold at most retail outlets carrying tobacco products.
"Cargo of contentment," my piles - half and half is harsh and bitter.
by Rod Brock July 24, 2006
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vixen

One of the eight mythic reindeer that pull Santa Claus' sleigh.
On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer, on Vixen! On Comet, on Cupid, on Donner, on Blitzen!
by Rod Brock July 27, 2006
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side meat

Slabs of meat taken specifically from the sides of a pig, practically a staple in the deep south. May be smoked and cured, in which case it becomes known as bacon, or salted, in which case it is known as salt pork. Sometimes referred to as "side pork," as well, it is an indispensable ingredient for the southern dish of boiled greens.

"Side meat" was mentioned numerous times in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," a story of an Oklahoma family who left home during the Dustbowl years to work in the fruit picking industry in California.
Fry up that side meat, ma - I'm starvin'!
by Rod Brock July 24, 2006
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Johnny Brown Pants

The condition of having brown stains, or skid marks on your underwear. May also be used a locker room taunt by young children, or at home by siblings.
Kiddo, you've got one serious case of Johnny brown pants.
by Rod Brock May 15, 2006
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