burnin daylight
burnin daylight by RickO March 25, 2003
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Burnin' Daylight
Wasting time that could be better used doing something productive.
Used by John Wayne in the 1972 movie "The Cowboys".
Used by John Wayne in the 1972 movie "The Cowboys".
Burnin' Daylight by RichieTheHammerr January 25, 2011
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burning daylight
Wasting time. Literally, losing valuable daylight hours (of which there never seem to be enough of).
burning daylight by 1Spectre4U March 31, 2004
burning daylight
Wasting time during hours when the sun is up. People were often only able to work when they could see outside.
Jimmy should have been out mowing the lawn, but instead he was burning daylight playing video games in the basement.
burning daylight by DIGGERß March 28, 2004
burning daylight
Wasting time, hesitating when something should be done quickly. Literally, letting the day go by while you are waiting to get started.
burning daylight by Athene Airheart March 30, 2004
burning daylight
A film industry slang term. Used as a way to tell actors and crew to hurry up as natural daylight wanes. Since the sun's position and quality changes throughout the day, sunlit shoots can be challenging to match later in editing, so it's important to get scenes done efficiently. This phrase is often used jokingly indoors to spur on the film crew.
burning daylight by Gulag Picture Radio March 30, 2004
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)