Kidding on the Square

I can see how you might think Al Franken had coined the expression if you had never heard it before, but it was an expression my mother when I was growing up -- and she died in 1984.

When Al picked up the tab for dinner he joked about me being a tightwad; I felt bad because I figured he was probably kidding on the square.

by PaulDee March 24, 2004

Quare on the Square

Dublin rhyming slang ("Quare" from the originally derogatory "queer" for gay, homosexual) for the reclining statue of Oscar Wilde, carved in County Cork from rocks of various colours. The statue is mounted on a boulder at one corner of Archbishop Ryan Park, Merrion Square, Dublin, opposite two metal columns inscribed with quotes from Wilde.

You've just got to come and see the tart with the cart and the quare on the square.

by Fearman February 10, 2008

Kidding on the Square

A Frankenism, meaning joking, but really meaning it.

Nick: Hey, Frank, how's the wife treatin' ya?
Frank: Fuck you, Nick.
Nick: Kidding on the square, Frank!

by Dorian Black June 21, 2005

The Port on the Square

The best student accommodation in Bristol :D

- I live in the best student accommodation in Bristol
- The Port on the Square?

by dsfghhjft May 20, 2024

hitting the nail too squarely on the head

Expressing oneself too directly, too plainly, insensitively.

I once considered buying a birthday card for my dad that made fun of his age. My dad was in his late 60's. It portrayed a man in a car looking in a rear-view mirror with a panicked expression, and seeing the Grim Reaper. The message printed on the mirror was, "Objects shown in mirror may be closer than they appear." I thought it was hilarious, but I thought it was "hitting the nail too squarely on the head." It's implication was too direct.

by kwebb1265 October 21, 2010