To give a simple task to someone highly over-qualified - originally finding the best percussionist available to play sleighbells in the chorus of a Christmas song.
Have you seen Jay's art? He's too good to be painting sets. I see some sleighbelling going on...
Jay's been sleighbelling with the choir again. He's a Grade 8 and they get him on a part that a toddler could play.
Jay's been sleighbelling with the choir again. He's a Grade 8 and they get him on a part that a toddler could play.
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To fall down a very, VERY steep staircase (also known as a ladder), ideally landing hard on your tail bone. Named after Absecon, New Jersey, home of the world's steepest and most dangerous staircases.
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Get the Speight mug.A "Nantucket Sleighride" was the result of harpooning a whale. The ship subsequently was dragged behind the whale by a line running from the harpoon to the ship. The Nantucket Sleighride would continue until the whale died, the line broke, or the ship sank.
After harpooning the whale, the good ship "Alabaster" was taken on a Nantucket Sleighride for nearly an hour.
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Mainly found in old whaling books, and Moby Dick
Popularised by whale killing off nantucket island
Mainly found in old whaling books, and Moby Dick
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