Good hot gossip. Still warm from the oven, and still fresh in the mind of the person dispensing it. Not day old stale gossip where the gossiper has forgot some of the subtle details that makes gossip so satisfying.
I overheard a conversation where person A was upset because person B was dishing out juicy gossip, and person A was asking basic question about the information being shared. Person B because she waited so long to share the gossip had forgotten many of the details, and in her discust with person A told her "don't be mad because your not getting fresh bread.
A person you hate intensely not because they deserve such hatred but because they serve as a focus for your general hatred. A healthy way to dispense with excess animosity.
Jake's not really that big an asshole. He just serves as my hate sink.
A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.
1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.