Pronunciation:
/póteɪtoʊ təˈmɑ təʊ/
Definitions:
1. (idiomatic) Used to suggest that two apparently similar things are actually different from each other.
2. (idiomatic) Used to admit that there is a distinction between two close things when the speaker previously maintained there was no distinction.
Etymology:
Uses American English and British English pronunciations of the words potato and tomato. Adaptation of the interchangeable sayings, “potato potahto” and “tomayto tomahto.” Parodied allusion to George Gershwin's song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off": "You like tomatoes (/təˈmeɪtoʊz/) and I like tomatoes (/təˈmɑ toʊz/)".
Synonyms:
tomayto potahto
Antonyms:
potayto potahto, tomayto tomahto, same difference
/póteɪtoʊ təˈmɑ təʊ/
Definitions:
1. (idiomatic) Used to suggest that two apparently similar things are actually different from each other.
2. (idiomatic) Used to admit that there is a distinction between two close things when the speaker previously maintained there was no distinction.
Etymology:
Uses American English and British English pronunciations of the words potato and tomato. Adaptation of the interchangeable sayings, “potato potahto” and “tomayto tomahto.” Parodied allusion to George Gershwin's song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off": "You like tomatoes (/təˈmeɪtoʊz/) and I like tomatoes (/təˈmɑ toʊz/)".
Synonyms:
tomayto potahto
Antonyms:
potayto potahto, tomayto tomahto, same difference
1. “What was in that burrito?”
“Aluminum foil”
“Wait... I asked what was ‘in’ it, not what was ‘on’ it.”
“Potayto tomahto”
“Aluminum foil”
“Wait... I asked what was ‘in’ it, not what was ‘on’ it.”
“Potayto tomahto”
by Clinton Brink November 1, 2017
Get the potayto tomahto mug.–noun
1. The day following tomorrow: Tomafter is supposed to be sunny.
–adverb
4. At some future time: We shall rest easy tomafter if we work for peace tomorrow.
1. The day following tomorrow: Tomafter is supposed to be sunny.
–adverb
4. At some future time: We shall rest easy tomafter if we work for peace tomorrow.
by Elijah Pack June 30, 2007
Get the Tomafter mug.(conversation via IM)
A: What's a hot tomali?
B: I donno. Do you mean tamale?
A: Oh... yeah, I guess.
B: Well, a tamale is a Mexican food made of cornmeal & lard, with typically a pork filling. A "hot tamale" can be a spicy cinnamon candy. Or it could be a reference to someone appealing to the eye.
A: Man I'm an idiot.
B: I know.
A: What's a hot tomali?
B: I donno. Do you mean tamale?
A: Oh... yeah, I guess.
B: Well, a tamale is a Mexican food made of cornmeal & lard, with typically a pork filling. A "hot tamale" can be a spicy cinnamon candy. Or it could be a reference to someone appealing to the eye.
A: Man I'm an idiot.
B: I know.
by mexican food March 30, 2010
Get the hot tomali mug.Fruit, produced through genetic fusion between a tomato and a tobacco plant using highly volatile uranium bars, ressembling a tomato, but filled with a black, goop-like, addictive substance.
They taste like granny.
They taste like granny.
by Chris July 29, 2003
Get the Tomacco mug.when the male positions him self under the female n sticks his hand up the vagina n comes out the other end(bunhole)
by tomasy February 27, 2009
Get the dirty tomas mug.The god of ska. Went from being in Gimp at 15 (a band resembling Nirvana) to Catch-22 at 16. Writing every song on the album Keasbey Nights at ages 16-18 and putting the CD out at 18. Then Went on to make the best acoustic ska band ever at age 22, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution. Then the same year forming the band Streetlight Manifesto with ex-catch 22 members and ex-one cool guy members. Tomas wrote the music and lyrics to the most incredible ska cd out, Everything Goes Numb. The bands new cd is set to release this year titled Somewhere in the Between.
I seriously would fuck him and I'm completely straight.
I seriously would fuck him and I'm completely straight.
"Hey man you listen to any Tomas Kalnoky bands?" "Yeah if I didn't I'd probably end up in hell" "Let's go jack off to Kalnoky" "Ya and then sacrifice some emo kids to him"
by rudeboyben September 7, 2007
Get the tomas kalnoky mug.chat started
Jim: so what time should we hang out?
Steve: how about tomarrow
Jim:okay, tomorrow is fine
Jim: so what time should we hang out?
Steve: how about tomarrow
Jim:okay, tomorrow is fine
by nickkzor99 August 10, 2010
Get the Tomarrow mug.