[upper story] {n.} 1. A floor or level of a building above the first floor. * /The apartment house where Gene lives is five stories high and he lives in […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

sob story

[sob story] {n.} A story that makes you feel pity or sorrow; a tale that makes you tearful. * /The beggar told us a long sob story before he asked […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

dirty story

[dirty story] {n. phr.} An improper or obscene story. * /Uncle Bill is much too fond of telling dirty stories in order to embarrass his friends./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

meatball

[meatball] {n.}, {slang} A dull, boring, slow-witted, or uninteresting person. * /You'll never get an interesting story out of that meatball - stop inviting him./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Bob Hope, Reader's Digest

(October 1958) If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

gogglebox

[gogglebox] {n.} Television.

Catherine Tate - The Offensive Translator

A CEO need to find desperately someone that knows how to speak 7 languages. This is really funny translation from English to […]

number one

[number one] (1) or [Number One] (1) {n. phr.}, {informal} Yourself; your own interests; your private or selfish advantage. […]

used to be

[used to be] or [did use to be] {v. phr.} Formerly or once was. * /Mary used to be small; but she has grown up./ * /Dick […]

day of reckoning

[day of reckoning] {n. phr.} 1. A time when one will be made to account for misdeeds. * /When the criminal was caught and […]

full of oneself

[full of oneself] {adj. phr.}, {informal} Interested only in yourself. * /Joe would be a nice boy if he would stop being so […]

Ferdinand Lundberg

(1902-1995) U.S. writer Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but that is not very […]