Wrap around it
The idea that Don Draper is the most influential man in America is weird. I am trying to wrap around it!
Wrap around it by millerk10 October 7, 2009
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wrap it around
To stretch one's circadian rhythm, so it aligns with a normal daylight cycle, but having missed one period. Excessive stimulant use, severe jetlag, or working an unusual shift, can lead to "wrapping it around". Compare to weekend lag, which attempts to compress an already-stretched cycle, rather than stretch it further so that it aligns again.
I could try for a nap before the morning gets under way, but once I'm asleep I'll want to stay asleep. I think I'll just wrap it around, pass me another Dew.
wrap it around by Myself248 December 27, 2007
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)