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Speak to the organ grinder not the monkey.

Wanting to talk to the boss not his sidekick.
Organ grinders being the boss, and the monkey being the one who helps him out.

Normally used in a conversation to describe the 'monkey' as someone who's interfering and defending or covering for the the 'organ grinder'.
Shut up! I wish to speak to the organ grinder not the monkey.
by Jadeeeeeeee8 May 30, 2010
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Sedatephobia

I'm terrible at exams due to my sedatephobia
by A_Cinnabar_Ruch March 23, 2009
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Seda

Seda is a smart and supper cool girl she's often creative and full-energy she loves attention and tells no one she's in love with, or she just puts a boy's name you should be with her friends because if you know her she's A supper weird, nice girlfriend you will meet she is also very sweet except to people she hates she is the best confidential person you will ever meet she can very well keep secrets from others and never tell anyone She takes permission, you really should be friends with her!
I wish that i had a friend like Seda, she is so awesome, handsome and helpfull, outgoing, crazy girl i've ever met i love her!
by Alyacik June 12, 2017
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Drummer Speak

n. (noun)
An oral language used to talk about the noise coming from the percussion section when one or more parties in the conversation cannot read percussion music. It is spoken largely by Drummers, Bassists, Conductors, and a select few others.
Guitarist: "um... yeah, I want you to do that one thing with your snare and the um..."

Bassist: "I think in Drummer Speak he means 'Dum-ka-tick-ka CHA CHA CHA-ka-dum-kah-dum dum kah-dum-kah-tick-kah-chick-kah-tick-kah duh-kah-duh tsss~."

Drummer: "Oh, sure."
by pearldrums April 19, 2010
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Cop-speak

The official unofficial language of the police when speaking to the public. Including: the press, in the courts, to witnesses or the general population.
Then the officer went right into Cop-speak."The subject was observed entering the a fore mentioned entry way. Documented to be breached around 1300 hours, the door was found to be, uh, dislodged with an unidentified object. The perp. was reportedly seen grasping that device by a reliable witness blah, blah, blah......"
by glamrocker October 6, 2009
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david sedaris

my favorite author in the entire world -- not one of his books will fail to make you laugh, and the funniest of the lot is "Me Talk Pretty One Day"

if you haven't read his stuff, you have to.

Other works include:
barrel fever
holidays on ice
naked
dress your family is corduroy and denim
"i read 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' yesterday!"
"Oh, was it good?"
"I almost wet myself"
by Page June 2, 2005
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1337 speak

Okay, 1337 is a good subject to talk about. The first thing I would like to clear up is that chatspeak and 1337 are NOT the same thing. Some lazy morons merge 1337 and chatspeak together, soon creating the popular belief that 1337 and chatspeak are the same thing.

Okay, so what /is/ 1337 in the first place? 1337 means Elite. The point of 1337 is to replace all the letters with symbols, and is quite fun to play with. 1337 was first created by some people would wanted to talk in a forum without any outsiders barging in. Some outsiders may have figured out the language and started using it as well. Eventually, 1337 became famous all over the internet. The original use of 1337 is hardly practiced any more, but it survives because many of peope use it for fun.

It takes a long time to translate between regular English and 1337 even if you know all 26 1337 secrets, unless you're very skilled at it.

Here are the 26 1337 secrets.
A = 4
B = |3
C = (
D = |)
E = 3
F = |=
G = 6
H = |-|
I = |
J = 9
K = |<
L = 1
M = |v|
N = |/| (It is backwards because the frontslash under the backspace key is famous for not showing up on many websites.)
O = 0 (zero)
P = |*
Q = 0,
R = |2
S = 5
T = 7
U = |_|
V = |/
W = |/|/
X = >< (Is normal in words like |-|4x0|2)
Y = `/
Z = 2

S0m3 p30ple 4r3 700 l4zy 70 wri73 7hin65 in fu11 1337, r3su17ing in a 53n73nc3 1ik3 7hi5.
If you wrote this sentence in 1337 speak, it would look like this:
||= `/0|_| |/|/|2073 7|5 53|/|73|/|(3 ||/| 1337, |7 |/|/0|_|1|) 100|< 1||<3 7|-||5.
by Courage the cowardly dog April 25, 2006
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