The Return of Light Joker 's definitions

lick one's wounds

to attempt to heal one's injuries or make oneself feel better

ff you just lick your wounds when that asshole is still out there than you wont have chance to warn the anyone to avoid him. (example of lick one's wounds)

by The Return of Light Joker January 8, 2012

too many chiefs and not enough Indians

nobody wants to be employed here but everyone wants to be in charge

I think the problem was that the store had too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

by The Return of Light Joker July 18, 2009

red under the bed

an insidious communist presence that has infiltrated a capitalist society (the under the bed part refers to the stereotypical child's fear of monsters under the bed, often used ironically to describe the mentality of people who are paranoid about communists)

Back then the red under the bed was viewed as the driving force behind our defense budget.

by The Return of Light Joker January 10, 2012

odd couple

an extremely mismatched pair of people, an extremely unlikely team or pair of people (from the name of play popularized by movie)

Ellen and Adam are quite the odd couple.

by The Return of Light Joker April 11, 2008

Ameche

a telephone (dated, from actor Don Ameche, who starred in an early film about Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telphone)

The Ameche rang off the hook.

by The Return of Light Joker May 24, 2011

water buffalo

1. a water storage tank

2. to vomit (worse than to yak)

The water buffalo had to be heated manually to get the water to flow.

by The Return of Light Joker December 10, 2010

IOU

written acknowledgement of a debt and a promise to pay it back(each letter pronounced seperately)

I had to give them an IOU to shut them up.

by The Return of Light Joker January 3, 2008