Honor's definitions
Principally from the 80's.
Any one of a loose class of rock and roll bands sharing any number of similarities, but typified by long, elaborately messy, overblown hairstyles.
The implication that the hair is perhaps the most substantive thing about such a band or thier music.
Any one of a loose class of rock and roll bands sharing any number of similarities, but typified by long, elaborately messy, overblown hairstyles.
The implication that the hair is perhaps the most substantive thing about such a band or thier music.
See, for example: Motley Crue, Guns -n- Roses, Warrant, Stryper, etc., and to a lesser degree, Def Leppard, Bon Jovie, and so on.
by Honor July 14, 2004
Get the hair bandmug. politically or in terms of pop culture: something that has potential or is going to be around a while, or "go far"
Bush handler: This reverse robin hood policy is an idea with legs... We just have to spin it right.
Failed entrepreneur: Car alarms that sing opera! Now there's an idea with legs!
Failed entrepreneur: Car alarms that sing opera! Now there's an idea with legs!
by Honor December 28, 2005
Get the with legsmug. Something edited or taken out... Part of the original work that's gone missing in the finished product.
In the days before we had uber-cool computers, film and music had to be edited "by hand"... This involved taking actual recorded tape or developed film, cutting it to remove or insert the bit in question, and then splicing the tape or film for use. The bits cut out would end up, at least temporarily, on the cutting room floor.
In the days before we had uber-cool computers, film and music had to be edited "by hand"... This involved taking actual recorded tape or developed film, cutting it to remove or insert the bit in question, and then splicing the tape or film for use. The bits cut out would end up, at least temporarily, on the cutting room floor.
Bob and Marsha were going to tell each other thier secrets before they got married... But somehow her affair with Tony ended up on the cutting room floor.
by Honor July 24, 2004
Get the cutting room floormug. A qualifying phrase intended to illustrate that someone has done a great deal in a short time... i.e: between the hours of 9 and 12, the shorter "half" of the workday.
Used sarcastically, sort of a "that's it?" illustrator.
Used sarcastically, sort of a "that's it?" illustrator.
I've researched the Abraham case on WestLaw and Lexis, ordered new office software for the front desk, sat three new client consultations, run to the courthouse and filed our motions, and had my oil changed on the way back, all before lunch.
Sarcastically: Hey, I called the office supplies place and ordered the pens you asked for. "Wow... All that before lunch?"
Sarcastically: Hey, I called the office supplies place and ordered the pens you asked for. "Wow... All that before lunch?"
by Honor June 23, 2004
Get the all before lunchmug. A Guinea Pig... A vile little creature that resembles nothing so much as a rat, if that rat were designed by GM and built by AMC.
Mom: So... Would you like to get a pet?
Kid: Sure. Anything but a fat rat.
A: What -is- that smell?
B: Oh, that's my brother's fat-rats. He changes their litter about as often as he showers.
Kid: Sure. Anything but a fat rat.
A: What -is- that smell?
B: Oh, that's my brother's fat-rats. He changes their litter about as often as he showers.
by Honor August 19, 2008
Get the Fat Ratmug. Language designed to sound like something without actually saying anything... Deliberately so ambiguous or watered-down as to be essentially meaningless.
by Honor May 13, 2005
Get the weasel wordsmug. a fellow who can often be seen around the city... Particularly in the right places or with the right people. Dapper, sociable, and fashionable.
by Honor July 24, 2004
Get the man about townmug.