"Bull" is being used as a double entendre -- meaning both the animal shown on the nickel and the other meaning of stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense. So, the bull is coming off the nickel and bring applied to the situation at hand. The situation at hand being nonsensical.
This obscure phrase is famously used in the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves". Rod Serling, in the intro, uses this expression in referring to Jared Garrity, who makes a living restoring life to the dead.
This obscure phrase is famously used in the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves". Rod Serling, in the intro, uses this expression in referring to Jared Garrity, who makes a living restoring life to the dead.
"Mr. Garrity, if one can believe him, is a resurrecter of the dead - which, on the face of it, certainly sounds like the bull is off the nickel." -- Rod Serling
by MJD1 January 9, 2021
Get the The bull is off the nickelmug. When a person goes into a fit of rage the likes of which is very rarely seen when they are not able to go to bullwinkles.
Yo man I heard another one of your friends has mad bulls disease. He must have gotten it from Jacob.
by CARoser98 February 15, 2019
Get the Mad Bulls Diseasemug. Friend 1: “What did Gerard Way do you get on the cover of Spin Magazine?”
Friend 2: “He rode the mechanical bull, he mentioned in an interview how he was very good at riding the mechanical bull”
Friend 1: “Oh That’s cool!”
Friend 2: “He rode the mechanical bull, he mentioned in an interview how he was very good at riding the mechanical bull”
Friend 1: “Oh That’s cool!”
by frankierosguitar_ September 12, 2020
Get the riding the mechanical bullmug. by Fobface February 15, 2020
Get the Bull ass niggamug. by Albrigi June 1, 2021
Get the killa da bullmug. "Bull" is being used as a double entendre -- meaning both the animal shown on the nickel and the other meaning of stupid or untrue talk or writing; nonsense. So, the bull is coming off the nickel and bring applied to the situation at hand. The situation at hand being nonsensical.
This obscure phrase is famously used in the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves". Rod Serling, in the intro, uses this expression in referring to Jared Garrity, who makes a living restoring life to the dead.
This obscure phrase is famously used in the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Garrity and the Graves". Rod Serling, in the intro, uses this expression in referring to Jared Garrity, who makes a living restoring life to the dead.
"Mr. Garrity, if one can believe him, is a resurrecter of the dead - which, on the face of it, certainly sounds like the bull is off the nickel." -- Rod Serling
by MJD1 January 3, 2021
Get the The bull is off the nickelmug. That time of day when, all of a sudden, your pet, or a person, gets a sudden, almost volcanic, burst of energy. The red bull hour does not require the consumption of red bull.
It always gets to be around 7pm when my dog Frank will hit the red bull hour and will run screaming around the garden like the devil is on his tail. After the red bull hour Frank is always ready to go to bed for the night.
by wife of Keith John February 16, 2012
Get the the red bull hourmug.