The definition comes from when you go to your car and the driver unlocks the doors but you pull the handle to soon. What happens from this is your door remains locked but every other door in the car is unlocked. People refer to this as screwing the pooch.
Narrator: Person one and person two are outside of their car as person one unlocks the car doors. Person two accidentily opens the car door too soon making his door stay locked.
Person one: Dude, why you be screwing the pooch!
person two: ya well...ur mom!!!
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 pee calculus.