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put up your dukes 

Basically means fight me or put up your hands so we can square up.
Person 1: You don't want to fight me.
Person 2: Put up your dukes and we'll see who doesn't want to fight who.

pay your dues 

Practice your art with experience's (performance's) to become a more knowledgeable performance artist. Study, memorizing and performing dramatic, musical, stand up act's.
You got to (pay your dues) if you want to sing the blues and you know it don't come easy.
pay your dues by informed victim December 2, 2017

dudes in your cereal

literal, real life dudes swimming in your cereal.
“yo who’s swimming in my cereal?”
“I think there’s dudes in your cereal
dudes in your cereal by doggy_047 October 3, 2025

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
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!
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)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026