mea culpa

mea culpa = Latin for "my fault"

Part of a prayer, in Latin " mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" -- meaning "my fault, my fault, my greatest fault"

by barber of seville May 26, 2019

wet from the egg

New kid on the job. Naive, doesn't know the ropes. Like a newly hatched chick that just emerged from the shell and not dried off yet. "Wet behind the ears."

Check out the new guy. Still wet from the egg.

by barber of seville May 25, 2019

head up and locked

Gross fool whose head is tightly wedged up his ass hole. Oblivious to reality.

Joe just doesn't get it. Head up and locked.

by barber of seville May 17, 2021

ticket little

A super cautious driver. Drives well below speed limit, comes to full stop, takes no risk of getting a ticket.

Likely received one lately - drives in fear of another one. Derived from "Chicken Little" -- fabled fowl who feared
the "Sky is falling".

Look at that slow poke driver. Ticket Little.

by barber of seville September 25, 2020

shoebox funeral

Burial of the victim of a fire, explosion, massive crash, which leaves so little remains that fit in a shoebox.

So little left of the victim he could have had a shoebox funeral.

by barber of seville April 12, 2019

picking shit with the chickens

Reduced to meager circumstances. Scratching out a subsistence living. Attempting to make do with minimum resources. Dumpster diving.

"Keep showing up late for work and you'll get fired and be picking shit with the chickens."

by barber of seville December 15, 2012

in the dumper

In the toilet. Down the tube.

Our chances of winning are in the dumper.

by barber of seville May 24, 2019