When 2 or more cats run down a flight of stairs, causing a rumbling sound and knocking over everything in their path. This often due to excitement and/or food.
"What happened to you, James? You look like you got in a fight."
"No, no...I just got caught in a catalanche and was swept down the stairs."
Any person that has ancestry originating in the Iberic region of Catalonia and speaks Catalan.
They're known to be fierce defenders of their opinion, their culture, being just a tad stingy, and (only some of them) their wish to free their homeland from Spain.
They can be seen anywhere in the globe as tourists (there's 1 in a 342 chance of a tourist being a catalan) or hard working immigrants, but their natural habitat is Catalonia.
Dude, everywhere I go, I we've met at least one catalan!
Even to that trip to Iceland?
I saw no less than 3!
Usualy Italian, big nosed and hard headed. Has a tendency to shout reallyloud and be really competitive. Once he\she has a girlfriend, defends her\his questionable hotness like it is life.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.