shooting fish in a barrel

n. Expression referring to something that is easy and unchallenging, often used when describing a hunt or destroying an enemy.

Playing this game is easy! it's like shooting fish in a barrel!

by MaSh92587 May 22, 2005

conk

Older British slang for "nose."

"I… hit him repeatedly on the conk. My reason for this was that his conk was covered with carbuncles, and I thought I should vex him by taking such liberties with his conk—which in fact I did."

-Quoted from Thomas de Quincey, "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," first published 1827.

by MaSh92587 April 15, 2006

jobnik

Israeli slang for a non-combatant soldier who serves his nation by doing secretarial work, clerking, counting inventory, or some other "job"-like function. Generally used with a hint of derision, as if the jobnik is lazier than a fighter.
Female form: jobnikit.
Plural form: jobnikim.

You want to be a jobnik? That's gonna be so boring, doing that for three years.

by MaSh92587 May 22, 2005

The Cutting Edge

1- In the most literal definition, the edge of a blade that cuts and is sharp.
2- More slangy, the superior limit that comes with maintaining progress and advancing with the latest trends.

"We are on the Cutting Edge of technology"
"This cutting edge technique allows you to do more with less."

by MaSh92587 May 03, 2005

kabourophobia

Fear of crabs (the sea-creature, not the disease). From the Greek root kabouros, meaning crab, and phobos, meaning fear.

Kabourophobia makes going to aquariums or tide pools rather difficult.

by MaSh92587 August 05, 2004

bodge

verb, with the literal meaning "to put a square peg in a round hole." This is referring to a scene from Apollo 13. Generally, to bodge is to repair hastily and without care of durability or aesthetics or perfection. Popularized in British television show "Scrapheap Challenge," known as "Junkyard Wars" in the US, and by producer Cathy Rodgers.

Your task is to bodge together a hovercraft from nothing but twisted metal, scrapped cars, and other assorted bits of rubbish!

by mash92587 December 28, 2005

n'arlens

New Orleans as said by New Orleanders.

I'm goin' down to N'arlens for Mardi Gras.

by MaSh92587 December 12, 2004