A wall-knocker is a parent in the next hotel room (for example, room 219 at the Hilton) who knocks on the wall to tell you to quiet down, because you’re having more fun than they are.
Even when you hear the knocks and stop talking loudly, they will call the front desk, and blame their unsettled baby on you being noisy, when really they just suck at putting their kid to bed but want someone to blame besides themselves because they’re dissatisfied and miserable.
Oh no, those wallknockers at the hotel room next door just called the front desk on us.
“ A tillyknocker is a person who just looks at you in amazement as they don’t understand a word you’re saying..but gives you that ‘uh huh’ nod. “ “Lost in the sauce.”
“ A tillyknocker is a person who just looks at you in amazement as they don’t understand a word you’re saying..but gives you that ‘uh huh’ nod. “ “Lost in the sauce.”
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.