relishandbeans has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 1 list, listed 2222 words, written 42 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 0 words.
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Comments by relishandbeans
relishandbeans commented on the word rearguard
a defensive or conservative element in an organization or community.
September 25, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word blue-jawed
Showing a stubble of unshaven beard, like a "five-o'clock shadow"
July 23, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word on the far side
Past your/its prime
July 23, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word writ large
In a stark or exaggerated form
July 14, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word waxen-faced
A face pale or smooth as wax
July 9, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word paterfamilias
Also: pater familias
July 9, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word hook, line, and sinker
To be naive and fall for something. I fell hook, line, and sinker or they got me hook, line, and sinker with that one.
July 8, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word didn't have a sick goat's chance
Not a good chance.
July 8, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word brain bubbles
Suffering from brain bubbles--when someone does something idiotic, not advised.
July 7, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word explete
To curse
June 27, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word make a mint
make money
June 19, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word entr’actes
French: Interlude
June 19, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word mash
an interesting mash of people.
June 19, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word right-face
Turn to look at a face. Opposite of about-face
June 19, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word compris
French: included, as in service compris
June 19, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word mookland
"They always put the print guys out in mookland"
aka with all the loosers.
June 19, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word anticlique
An exclusive group of friends or associates that are opposed by another exclusive group of friends or associates.
June 18, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word capo di tutti capi
Or capo dei capi,
June 18, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word flinty-eyed
Having a very serious quality or manner.
June 18, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word stroke parlor
Massage parlor w/ a happy ending.
June 18, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word breath and bread
Of vital importance eg: Most are just hard-core fans, the industry’s breath and bread.
June 18, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word hawg
motorcycle
June 18, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word amour fou
French: Crazy love
June 17, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word range over
To cover an area; to travel about in one area
June 17, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word treaclize
a blend of molasses, sugar, and corn syrup. : something that is annoying because it is too sentimental, contrived.
June 17, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word best of british luck
Good luck.
June 17, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word mortise and tenon
Used for thousands of years by woodworkers around the world to join pieces of wood, mainly when the adjoining pieces connect at an angle of 90°. In its basic form it is both simple and strong
June 16, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word be apprised
Give notice to
June 16, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word sturm und drang
A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
June 16, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word dum spero joie de vivre
Dum spero= While I hope (Latin)
joie de vivre= joy of living (French)
It must mean something like 'While I hope for the joy of living'.
June 15, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word infra-dignitatem
Beneath the dignity of someone. Undignified. The phrase is used to indicate that a suggested or contemplated act does not befit one's character or standing. Some people shorten the phrase to infra dig by those who know.
June 15, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word how things shake out
How things turn out.
June 15, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word turnip
A person with a humorless, lifeless and ignorant personality (as in a vegetable).
June 14, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word beard (v)
boldly confront or challenge (someone formidable)
June 13, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word whipsong
An unrelenting merciless verbal attack; a traditional German dance?
June 13, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word waterhead
someone who lacks common sense and intelligence
June 13, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word gutter-fight
In politics: Petty, smear campaign
June 11, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word probosces
An elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate.
June 11, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word full of piss and vinegar
Rowdy, boisterous, full of youthful energy.
June 11, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word broomsedge
A genus of grasses
June 11, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word pecunia non olet
:(latin) money does not stink
The phrase pecunia non olet is still used today to say that the value of money is not tainted by its origins.
June 2, 2014
relishandbeans commented on the word stravage
chiefly Scottish
: roam
June 2, 2014