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  • Turdtown, turd town

    Turdtown, turd town

    Turd Town is a term used to describe a place where everything is just plain shitty

    Examples 

    Absolutely disgusting, the city a turd town now! 

    Around Burlington: How early Burlington shook off its ‘Turd Town’ nickname

    …a number of towns in the area branded ‘turdtowns’ 

    “Your ideas are as useful as a pile of crap in Turd Town.”

  • Dump

    Dump

    Incompetent, futile 

    Example

    Gathering of the dump, deluded and spineless men.

  • Snarky

    Snarky 

    Bad-tempered or irritable

    Example 

    Just a single snarky snippet today – not because there isn’t a lot to get snarky about, but my mind is bouncy today.

  • Crackpot

    Crackpot

    An eccentric or foolish person

    Examples 

    She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us. 

    Crackpots! 

  • Trope

    Trope 

    A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression

    Examples 

    Perhaps, it is more important to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age.

    What I would ask you to do is check your tropes.

  • Fall for something

    Fall for something

    To believe something without reservation

    Examples

    Surely, you don’t expect me to fall for that!

    Don’t fall for it this time.

  • The shoe is on the other foot

    The shoe is on the other foot

    The roles (of two or more people) have been reversed, especially roles that were the opposite of each other

    Examples 

    I can see that you don’t like being told what to do, but now the shoe is on the other foot!

    It’s delightful to finally see the shoe on the other foot.

  • String someone along

    String someone along

    To deceive someone for a long time or to falsely encourage someone

    Example 

    This seems to be just another attempt to string them along.

    “I’m not sure if he really likes me or if he’s just stringing me along.”

  • The gravy train

    The gravy train

    An easy way of getting a lot of money and other benefits

    Examples 

    Financial services produce very high earnings, and a lot of people are trying to get onto the gravy train.

    The gravy train has run out of steam. Change is coming.

  • Whitewash

    Whitewash

    A victory by the same side in every game of a series

    Examples 

    “the Lions went downhill to a 4–0 whitewash”

    British and Irish lions miss out on whitewash as Australia win third and final clash of series

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