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Definitions by The Return of Light Joker

1. a popular female musician

2. an informer(because a canary sings)
That canary won't shut up after what happened yesterday.
coarse and provocative (said of language)
You friends are always using such salty words.

card shark 

a skilled card player (no longer is the word necessarily pejorative)
A card shark was strutting his stuff at the other table.

razzle-dazzle

1. showy, gaudy

2. adroit deception
They had festooned the house with razzle-dazzle all over.

You're the doctor

I defer to your authority
A:I think it is not worth the trouble of
fixing.

B: You're the doctor

give up the ghost 

If he does give up the ghost, love will never be the same.