A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass—-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.
Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."( Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)
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Douglas Adams
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
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Alexander Pope
On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
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Peter ODonnell
In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.
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Amit Kalantri
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A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass—-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.
You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.
