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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

Incompetent, futile 

Example

Gathering of the dump, deluded and spineless men.

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

An eccentric or foolish person

Examples 

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

Crackpots! 

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 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

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

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

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