off the book
off the book by Bai LI September 12, 2007
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The book off
The act of getting a book out on the train, tube bus or plane in order to avoid talking to the person next to you. Substitutes include a newspaper, phone or iPod.
Person one: "Blablabla isn't the weather terrible blablabla"
Person two: (gets book out thus giving Person one "The book off")
Person one stops talking.
Person two: (gets book out thus giving Person one "The book off")
Person one stops talking.
The book off by 0xxMillyxx0 September 20, 2009
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Off the Booklist
Off the Booklist by CrashCore December 7, 2009
off the books
No paper trail , on the down low.
Don't tell no one. kind of like when someone is hiding money they keep it "OFF THE BOOKS"
Don't tell no one. kind of like when someone is hiding money they keep it "OFF THE BOOKS"
off the books by Elliedizzle420 December 1, 2018
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)