Any one of a number of heinously outdated colloquialisms; their rhetorical
power lies in their deplorable ability to frustrate or incite hilarity. Upon utterance, a speaker
will likely generate the following behavioral, cerebral, or emotional responses:
1) Externalized disgust (behavioral)
2) Debilitating brain aneurisms (cerebral)
3) Crushing submission (emotional)
They should be avoided in
day-to-
day vernacular, and hopefully eventually removed from English nomenclature.