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Under the cosh

If someone is under pressure because they have a deadline for a piece of coursework, or your team is under pressure to hold on to a one nil lead, this is known to be 'under the cosh' hence you are under pressure
"I have got so much work to do, so I'll give u a ring when I'm not under the cosh"

"We're just managing to hold onto a one nil lead and their really putting us under the cosh"
cosh by ddaazz June 11, 2006
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She was a happy and outgoing person until she developed cosmophobia. Then, knowing her true place in the universe, insanity was inevitable.
cosmophobia by Stuart Concannon February 27, 2005
The operating system designed by Bill Cosby and released in late 2008. This operating system is Unix based and it is distributed by CosbySoft. Bill Cosby has been a computer programmer ever since he started to eat Jell-o pudding.
CosbyOS is a great operating system, it's faster and more stable than Windows and Linux and you can play lots of cool games on it like SimTaco. The only thing that sucks about CosbyOS is that you have to make Bill Cosby Jell-o pudding every 5 minutes when you use it.
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costa verde

A prestigious community within La Jolla and UTC that consists of many wealthy students and young professionals (yuppies). This apartment community contains a very affluent and snobby culture. It has it's own shopping center, boulevard, and is claimed to be the most expensive area of all the La Jolla apartments.
Dave: "where do you live Joe"
Joe: "Costa Verde"
Dave:"how the hell do you afford that?"
Joe: "Im rich, so what?"
costa verde by Chris Gard September 8, 2007