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Get the Wimberley mug.to secretly record a conversation with another person by wearing a line with a microphone connected to a handheld recorder hidden somewhere on your body
ME: I'm talking to my professor after class today and he's gonna say he wants me to fail hard
FRIEND: Get some proof
ME: Yeah I'm gonna wear a wire
FRIEND: Get some proof
ME: Yeah I'm gonna wear a wire
by DeafDumbAndBlind November 24, 2013
Get the wear a wire mug."Crossed wires" can describe either of these situations:
1. when people who are supposedly having a conversation with each other are actually talking about completely different things
2. when a dialogue gets out of sync because people are not listening to each other - in a written dialogue this is usually because someone has posted twice before reading a reply.
The expression derives from ye olden days of analogue telephones. Sometimes when speaking on the phone in the 60s or 70s it was possible to hear another conversation on the same line. You might also pick up the phone and find that instead of a dial tone you could hear a conversation. This situation was called "crossed wires".
1. when people who are supposedly having a conversation with each other are actually talking about completely different things
2. when a dialogue gets out of sync because people are not listening to each other - in a written dialogue this is usually because someone has posted twice before reading a reply.
The expression derives from ye olden days of analogue telephones. Sometimes when speaking on the phone in the 60s or 70s it was possible to hear another conversation on the same line. You might also pick up the phone and find that instead of a dial tone you could hear a conversation. This situation was called "crossed wires".
Example 1:
Emma: I can't wait for the weekend
Joe: Freedom at last! Next year I'm going travelling
Emma: We're throwing a party for our graduation
Joe: I'm gonna hitchhike around Europe
Emma: Everyone is invited. Hope they all come.
Joe: London Paris and Rome here I come!
Emma: You are coming aren't you?
Joe: Wanna come with me?
Emma: Crossed wires!
Example 2:
Jack: I'm sick and tired of arguing
Anna: sorry I didn't mean to upset you. I forgot that you don't like talking about politics
Jack: and I get the feeling you're trying to upset me!
Jack: sorry crossed wires
Emma: I can't wait for the weekend
Joe: Freedom at last! Next year I'm going travelling
Emma: We're throwing a party for our graduation
Joe: I'm gonna hitchhike around Europe
Emma: Everyone is invited. Hope they all come.
Joe: London Paris and Rome here I come!
Emma: You are coming aren't you?
Joe: Wanna come with me?
Emma: Crossed wires!
Example 2:
Jack: I'm sick and tired of arguing
Anna: sorry I didn't mean to upset you. I forgot that you don't like talking about politics
Jack: and I get the feeling you're trying to upset me!
Jack: sorry crossed wires
by Jules Fox April 11, 2013
Get the Crossed wires mug.A person who often becomes excited and aggressive over trivial things. Specific stimuli especially invokes excitement from one who is a live wire.
Watch what you say, because he's a live wire, he gets so mad over the tiniest things, especially if you tease him about his extensive shoe collection. But if you talk about something he likes, he'll become really excited and happy!
by Laura MM October 2, 2010
Get the live wire mug.That idiot at the garage wimmed my car and now it's a dud.
I tried to recombobulate my computer with the disc thingy but I stuffed it up and now it's wimmed.
I tried to recombobulate my computer with the disc thingy but I stuffed it up and now it's wimmed.
by Bomb Doe January 11, 2009
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