brown lining

The opposite of silver lining. When good (or bad) news includes worse, additional information.

Boss: Well, Jimmy, you got the internship!

Jimmy: Dope.

Boss: ...the brown lining is its unpaid.

Jimmy: Rats.

brown lining by BobbyStompy February 26, 2011

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Brownlining

Brownlining is fishing discolored water for fish most anglers avoid, and are not typically eaten. Muddy creeks filled with farm effluent and debris, urban rivers choked by trash and runoff from streets are brownline waterways.

I'm going Brownlining, hopefully I won't get any on me.

Brownlining by kbarton10 November 2, 2008

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Brownlining • Brown • Brown-out • brown eye • brown sugar • brown nose • brown bag • brown-noser • brown shirts • brown clown

Brownlining

The state and level of intoxication required to brownout for a long period of time, without blacking out, or sobering up; at the perfect level of drunk all night.

Man the party last night was so lit, I was brownlining for the entire night.

Brownlining by The cool guy from down under March 4, 2023

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Brownlining

On the desperate razors edge of having to go to the bathroom in your pants.

Johnny was in full panic mode, brownlining his way to the car as the three helpings of bolognese slowly forced their way out.

Brownlining by ms7 January 27, 2024

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A Booger In The Nose Of Progress

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.

"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."

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006

Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

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🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.

Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻

🤡🫵🏻 by Ubeenbamboozledson May 31, 2026

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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!

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)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

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