This applies to the person who leaves at noon and tells nobody except for the people who will be gone the next day. Basically an easy way to leave for the day and say that you will “work from home”! - this #1 gives you an alibi for co-worker bad-talk and #2 if you tell yourself that you will “work from home” enough times, you won’t feel guilty about what jobs your co-workers have to pick up the slack on.
You're working on your computer until you suddenly realize that you kinda want to just push off your work to someone else without making it too obvious and just go home for the day. So instead of saying, "yeah....I'm taking off", you should say, "yeah....I'm Jak'en off". Everyone will think that you just made a freud'n slip and laugh - you're home free.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.