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manuscript dust 

Manuscript dust is a euphemism for powdered stimulants among historical archivists.
"Damn Jane how'd you get those notes for your book turned around in a week?"
"Manuscript dust,"

working on my manuscript 

when a poet (a creature possessing a distracting amount of sensuality and dazzling magnetism) has successfully seduced his/her intended and is closing the deal.
Hey, Rob, I can't talk now - I'm working on my manuscript. I'll call ya tomorrow.

Morse-code manuscript 

A.k.a. "intermittent ink", this term describes the muddled mess of random "dots 'n' dashes" that you typically end up with when feverishly trying to scribble notes with a ballpoint pen on anything but totally "clean 'n' pristine" writing-paper, or when attempting to hastily jot down a few words while holding your paper up against a vertical wall, where gravity ceases to aid ink-flow to the pen-tip.
The infuriating "Morse-code manuscript" debacle tends to manifest itself all the more whenever you're either in a stew or pressed for time, since your hands will tend to perspire a lot more during "nerved up" periods like this, and so the ink will not readily adhere to all of the damp/salty/greasy spots where you've been holding the paper steady while writing. Also, if the paper itself is not the best (like if its surface is excessively flaky/textured, or is coated with a foreign substance, like a cash-register receipt), you may have problems here, as well; this is an especially exasperating dilemma because this type of "inferior" foolscap-scrap may sometimes be the only writing-material that's handy at the time when you unexpectedly have to scrawl down a phone number or other important info/reminder, and so you may encounter this debacle more frequently/unavoidably than you might expect.
Morse-code manuscript by QuacksO August 31, 2018

manuscriptorium 

a room set aside for writing manuscripts.
The writer has been in the manuscriptorium for hours.
manuscriptorium by uttam maharjan August 18, 2010
"Hi, I'm the pizza delivery guy" were the only words in the anuscript for "Debbie Does Domino's"
anuscript by Annie TB March 29, 2008
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

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