The Clorfors were a race of tight pockets and swindlers from the planet Clorfor. You Earthlings might liken them to "space jews". You might also call me racist but it's hard to be racist towards a race that doesn't exist... Like the Clorfors!
Dirty, money-grubbing Clorfors. Tried to clorf me right out of my money. Blew those bastards up is what I did!
When you look into another person's face very closely, so that their eyes merge together into one eye. This was illustrated in an episode 9 of season 3 of the Adult Swim tv show "Moral Orel," by Dino Stamatopoulos.
When you come close to something but don't quite get there.
Just short of success
This phrase originated in the 1920's. Fair grounds would give cigars away as prizes. Prizes were more aimed at the adults then vs. children like they are now. The fair workers would shout out "close but no cigar".... The first written documentation of this word appeared in the 1930's and then became a common phrase.
You finish second in a race
A friend asks how you did
You tell them "I finished in second place, close but no cigar"