Yacht(sailboat) racing term referring to the visual speed indicator of looking at a competitors sail edges and the trees on the land behind. If trees are appearing in front of the other vessel, then you are going faster. If the trees are appearing behind the other vessel, then it is going faster.
Related term: A Real Tree Maker - meaning a fast boat.
Related term: A Real Tree Maker - meaning a fast boat.
Making Trees/Tree Maker: Hey, I just spent three days fairing the boats hull. It's going to be a Real Tree Maker now.
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Get the Making Trees mug.Used in a sentence typically constructed as "You're making an ass out of yourself". It means that the target is making himself seem foolish or that he is embarrassing himself.
"Josh is always making an ass out of himself when he's had too much to drink"
"Hey Josh! Stop making an ass out of yourself!"
"Hey Josh! Stop making an ass out of yourself!"
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There is an old saying among senior military officers making war or sausage is best done out of the public eye!
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Get the making muffins mug.The state that is fabulously drunk. Loud, boorish obnoxious and very inebriated. Making wow involves table dancing, inappropriate behavior with service staff, disrespectful (but often hilariously self destructive) behavior with loved ones, bouncers and some times the police.
This expression has its source in the Funny or Die's second Ed Hardy Boys short movie. Post climax, Christian Audigier utters the sentence: "Lets make Wow!, Lets make Wow!" to the boys and durst. Perhaps this is a cynical interpretation of Audigier's meaning but it certainly is the closest, in my opinion, to what will occur in reality.
This expression has its source in the Funny or Die's second Ed Hardy Boys short movie. Post climax, Christian Audigier utters the sentence: "Lets make Wow!, Lets make Wow!" to the boys and durst. Perhaps this is a cynical interpretation of Audigier's meaning but it certainly is the closest, in my opinion, to what will occur in reality.
1 - Did you see Paul last night at the club?
2 - Dude! He was making wow!
1 - He managed to get that girl's number before getting thrown out and passing out on the sidewalk.
2 - Nice...
2 - Dude! He was making wow!
1 - He managed to get that girl's number before getting thrown out and passing out on the sidewalk.
2 - Nice...
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Get the Making Wow mug.Making it Rain for poor people. When you "make it drizzle," the person in question will take their food stamps and throw them in the air over 2 or more people.
Guy 1: "You see that lady with the 5 kids?"
Guy 2: "Hell yeah! I'd hit that like a freight train!"
Guy 1: "Nah, you gotta be Making it Drizzle to get that booty. She straight-up WIC Superfly."
Guy 2: "Hell yeah! I'd hit that like a freight train!"
Guy 1: "Nah, you gotta be Making it Drizzle to get that booty. She straight-up WIC Superfly."
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Get the Making it Drizzle mug.When a party guest has nothing in common with you and makes attempts to find out what you are interested in. He may also bring up subjects that really have no interest to anyone. The guest's attempts are lame and superficial. He has no intentions to find out who you really are and does not want to be seen at the party by himself and talking to no one.
"So, what do you think of the cold weather today? Did you catch the big game? What do you do for a living? Did you hear about the towel sale at the mall?"
I had to ditch that guy at the party. He was making lame social conversation.
I had to ditch that guy at the party. He was making lame social conversation.
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