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stiletto in the ghetto

Popular expression in Dublin, Ireland for the piece of commemorative art set up to mark the passing of the second millennium CE: a steel spike approximately 400 feet high, rising out of a traffic island in the centre of the dual thoroughfare of O'Connell Street on the north bank of the Liffey. It is circular in cross section, ten feet across at the base and decorated near street level with wavy frosted/reflective shapes, tapering to about ten inches at the tip, lit with a ring of red lights halfway up and a stream of white ones at the top. It takes the place of a removed statue of the figure of Anna Livia (female symbol of the River Liffey) in a fountain, previously known as the "floozie in the jacuzzi." The Spike is also known as the Spike on the Dike and/or the Stiffey on the Liffey. It is popularly supposed to be a monument to the street's night-time heroin addicts, although an alternative explanation would be that it is a symbolic memo spike for Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Aherne's hotel bills. In case anyone tries flying a jetliner into it a la 9/11, it is purely a metal spike, not an inhabited building; there isn't even a public elevator and observation deck like there is on the Eiffel Tower, or anything. Still, in a certain summer evening light it can have a certain surreal charm.
The stiletto in the ghetto isn't bad, but I think the crane they used to haul it up looked waaay better.
stiletto in the ghetto by Fearman December 10, 2007

Stilton on the Dock of the Bun Burger 

"Hey Bob, what's the burger of the day?" "It's the Stilton on the Dock of the Bun Burger, you should try it!"

Still At the Restaurant 

When someone still has lingering attachments to their ex.

Derived from the Taylor Swift song, "right where you left me" where she sings about her ex lover leaving her at the restaurant.
"I think I'm still at the restaurant."

"But you guys have been broken up for a year!"

"There was just something special."
Still At the Restaurant by soopergup September 24, 2023

Your eating a chipolte buritou in the lake while your showring with paranas.... how do you know that fortnite isnt avalible in 2017 the game is still going to this day. you have to go into the soil and meet bugs life.... THE MOVIE 

someone: "Why do girls twerk"?
Me: "thats a trick question"
someone: "what"
Me: listen....Your eating a chipolte buritou in the lake while your showring with paranas.... how do you know that fortnite isnt avalible in 2017 the game is still going to this day. you have to go into the soil and meet bugs life.... THE MOVIE"

do u still want the pizza? 

when there's one slice of pizza left and you say "do u still want the pizza" which means: u better say no you dumb fuck or i will strangle you to death using the pizza.
Guy 1: do u still want the pizza?
Guy 2: *runs away* NOOOOOOOOOO

Still on the bird's back 

A rural saying originating from Australia. To be "On the bird's back" essentially means being mid-transit; approaching a predetermined location, event, or gathering agreed upon by friends; To almost be ready for something.
Australians in particular use it as a euphemism to reduce swearing around children or foreigners who may take offence to typical Australian dialect, E.g., "Give me a second you whining cunt, I'm almost fucking there." is replaced by a simple "I'm still on the birds back mate".
Person 1: "Where the hell are you!?".
Person 2: "Still on the bird's back man".
Person 1: "Right, see you soon dude".

........

Person 1: "Honey I'm home! How's dinner going?"
Person 2: "Still on the birds back".
Person 1: *beats wife to the tune of monster mash*