The Sterling knight opening

When you start a chess game as white, and for the first 5 turns you only move your knights

“Dang Jimmy! I didn’t know you were familiar with the Sterling knight opening!”

by MrBunBuns1496 April 26, 2025

cut the apron strings

breaking free from dependency on another person

Once I graduated from college, my mom had to cut the apron strings. she would no longer enable me. Tough love, you know.

by amycocoa June 2, 2014

stealing the A

when a person attempts to harness control of the attention in a crowd of people, just for the sake of having the attention. The method of which they do this has no actualy meaning and is done purely for their own gratification.

"imagine if our nipples were replaced with penises."

"CLAYTON..... stop stealing the A!!"

by BIlly S. February 17, 2006

Stealing the conversation

It's when one uninvolved and uninvited asshole barges in on a private conversation, and dominates it to the exclusion of one of the original people who was conversing. This can be a form of cockblocking.

Jason: John is a complete asshole. Notice how he is always stealing the conversation?

Joe: Yeah, what a fucking cockblocker!

by Jimmy the Dick September 23, 2010

stealing the monkey's banana

To take something of great importance from someone, purely for the purpose of laughing at them.
i.e taking a monkey's banana from it.

David: "I think I'll go steal that deaf kid's hearing aid. Just for shits and giggles."

Marcie: "You can't just go stealing the monkey's banana like that!"

by Alex Conway January 20, 2009

Stealing the tongue from the foxes mouth

Our lying friend Emmeline tried to convince us that she had the saying "stealing the tongue from the foxes mouth" accepted by Urban Dictionary. This was clearly not true, so now the saying refers to the action of lying about having one's Urban Dictionary suggestions accepted.

Emmeline: Mate, that's well brenga!

You: What? Wtf does "brenga" mean?

Emmeline: Haven't you heard? Everyone's saying it. I made it up and Urban Dictionary accepted it, now it's their Word of the Day.

You: Low it mate, you're stealing the tongue from the foxes mouth again innit!

by Papa Tredz September 28, 2013

Stealing the show

Stealing something from somebody (including a show) who would gladly give somebody something doesn't seem like an action with a lot of honor in it. Being indirect about it instead of straightforward makes somebody more of a liar than a thief.

They would've given him/her the show, as it said to do in the script, but he/she still insisted on a coup to steal the show. Stealing the show had always been his/her true intention, to get the best of any of the other guy there was.

by Solid Mantis February 1, 2021