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hold your horses

Stop what you're doing. Stop right where you are.
Hey! Hold your horses, big boy! Your plan is all fucked up!
by slowest March 29, 2004
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horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear war

Even though you missed it by a tiny amount, you still didn't get there.

A time when there is no positive effect, or will be no positive effects, because of your actions".

With horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear war, you can miss your target, or goal, but still have some positive effect.
Luke : "Are you ready to go? We have to get to the airport, NOW!"
Chris :"I'm close"
Luke : "Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear war".

Zach : "I was so close to getting that job"
Matt : "Yeah, but close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and nuclear war".
by EdwardW266 May 2, 2011
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Honestcasm

The opposite of "sarcasm". Often used when countering a false charge of sarcasm.
Nah baby, it's not like that. When I said that your pink hat looked dope, it wasn't sarcasm at all. It was honestcasm! For reals though.
by Gormonster January 4, 2011
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honest john

A rest stop hand job, given by a bearded coal miner with zero talking and little to no eye contact.
The only thing that makes the 7 hour drive to grandmas bearable is the honest john waiting for me off exit 132.
by honestjohnnnny November 22, 2016
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Long Horses Mare

It's a horse's skanky wife with braids in her hair.
"Did they over there, have braids in their hair?
Those girls over there! The ones without a care!
The one girl won't share, but they two are a pair.

And their long horses mare."
by LongHorsesMare June 24, 2009
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self-honest

Being who you really are not who others want you to be, authentic.
Even if you want me to love this film, I'll be self-honest I don't really like it.
by rainforestparrot October 24, 2013
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An Honest Day's Work

Something the well-to-do love to brag about doing while they are driven around in their limousines visiting the factories they own. Meanwhile, they pay the real workers scraps, and brainwash them into thinking backbreaking work will get them rich someday as well.
Big Lawyer #1: Theres nothing as honorable as an honest day's work, especially when I get 400 dollars an hour to babble on the phone with other people's lawyers about golf and wine tasting.

Lawyer#2: Yessir I worked hard to get to where i'm at, even though I spent half of law school, which was paid for by my parents, in cocktail bars.
by suzietoenail January 5, 2011
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