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The term Chattering Classes is an essentially British expression, seldom heard outside the UK. It was invented by British journalist Oberon Waugh (he really couldn’t stand them) but was later taken up by pundits and political commentators to describe a group of the “metropolitan middle class”. Generally though it’s used as a derogatory tag for those who are politically active, socially concerned and ‘highly’ educated; especially those with political, media or academic connections. Its original meaning has now changed somewhat and now it usually refers to WOFS, Londoncentric pseudo-celebrities who talk a lot about social injustice, disaster relief, third world aid and all the other fashionable causes but do absolutely fuck all to help.
The chattering classes are all talk and no action.
by AKACroatalin May 30, 2015
Get the Chattering Classes mug.Nepotism (the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.
2. The act of using your power or influence to get good jobs or unfair advantages for members of your own family.
The word originates from the mid 17th century and derives from French népotisme or Italian nepotismo, from nipote ‘nephew’ (with reference to privileges bestowed on the ‘nephews’ of popes, who were in many cases their illegitimate sons).
2. The act of using your power or influence to get good jobs or unfair advantages for members of your own family.
The word originates from the mid 17th century and derives from French népotisme or Italian nepotismo, from nipote ‘nephew’ (with reference to privileges bestowed on the ‘nephews’ of popes, who were in many cases their illegitimate sons).
by AKACroatalin December 17, 2016
Get the Nepotism mug.English slang expression which can be used as a noun or a verb:
1 Knock off (noun), an item intended to look like something it is not, such as an expensive watch or designer clothes.
Knock off (verb) can have a number of meanings depending on context:
2 to stop working for a short break;
3 to leave work at the end of the day;
4 to steal or remove;
5 to kill or severely chastise someone;
6 to try to get close to someone for romance or casual sex;
1 Knock off (noun), an item intended to look like something it is not, such as an expensive watch or designer clothes.
Knock off (verb) can have a number of meanings depending on context:
2 to stop working for a short break;
3 to leave work at the end of the day;
4 to steal or remove;
5 to kill or severely chastise someone;
6 to try to get close to someone for romance or casual sex;
1 That piece of shit isn’t a Rolex, it’s a knock off;
2 Let’s knock off for a cuppa, I’m parched;
3 It’s gone five o’clock, let’s knock off;
4 I’m going to knock off a few pens from the office;
5 They’re going to knock off that fat bastard he’s really pissed them off.
6 I’m going to knock off that bird from HR;
2 Let’s knock off for a cuppa, I’m parched;
3 It’s gone five o’clock, let’s knock off;
4 I’m going to knock off a few pens from the office;
5 They’re going to knock off that fat bastard he’s really pissed them off.
6 I’m going to knock off that bird from HR;
by AKACroatalin April 19, 2015
Get the Knock Off mug.Saying something in public detrimental to someone else without realising or considering the detrimental effects to yourself and your own interests. As an example President Barack Obama stated that the USA would be in no hurry to secure a trade deal with a United Kingdom outside of the EU. This crude attempt at blackmail failed to take into account the fact that the UK imports as much from the USA as it exports, so American manufacturers would suffer. Not only that, no trade deal means no Scotch Whisky, no Rolls-Royce cars but it goes much further than that. The next time the USA makes a mess of its foreign policy and wants British troops to come and do some of the dying for them, guess what the answer’s going to be. Basically Obama-ing is just another way of saying talking shit.
“With his bullshit about no trade deal with the UK Obama is just Obama-ing.”
“Oh, you mean talking through his arse.”
“Oh, you mean talking through his arse.”
by AKACroatalin September 5, 2016
Get the Obama-ing mug.This is slang for applying large quantities of make-up to the face or body. It derives from the verb ‘pargeting’ which is to apply a decorative, waterproof plaster to a wall. The finished plaster is also known as pargeting and can be in a variety of colours. So if a woman is piling stuff on her face, eyebrows, eyes, lips, eyelashes or face, she is pargeting.
“Look at that silly moo piling gunk on her face!”
“Yeah, she does so much pargeting she keeps Maybelline in business by herself’”
“Yeah, she does so much pargeting she keeps Maybelline in business by herself’”
by AKACroatalin March 20, 2019
Get the Pargeting mug.Although usually meaning a small piece of excrement attached to the hairs of your arse, sometimes known as a Clingon, it can also mean someone who is a minor, smelly, unpleasant nuisance that is sometimes difficult to get rid of.
"Malcolm is monopolising the vending machine again, no-one can get him to move."
"God! what a fartleberry!"
"God! what a fartleberry!"
by AKACroatalin March 12, 2015
Get the Fartleberry mug.Clarke’s Third Law is probably the best known and most widely cited of the three and states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Just as an aside the others are:
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
by AKACroatalin December 17, 2016
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