[deep-six] {v.}, {slang} To throw away; dispose of. * /As the police boat came near, the drug smugglers deep-sixed their cargo./ (An expression originally used by sailors, suggesting throwing something […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Aunt Tom

[Aunt Tom] {n.}, {slang}, {originally from Black English} A successful professional or business woman who, due to her success in a masculine profession, doesn't care about the women's liberation movement […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Friedrich Nietzshe

The Germans are like women. You can scarcely ever fathom their depths--they haven't any.

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filth (the)

[filth (the)] {n.} The police (derogatory).

ad lib

[ad lib] {v. phr.} To improvise; interpolate during speech. * /When the actress forgot her lines during the second act, she […]

brave it out

[brave it out] {v. phr.} To endure something difficult or dangerous through to the end; keep on through trouble or danger. * […]

I would like to buy a hamburger

A fragment from "Pink Panther" movie: the French secret agent tries to learn the correct English accent to avaiod suspision.

go-go

[go-go] {adj.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Vigorous youthful, unusually active. * /Joe is a go-go kind of guy./ 2. Of a […]

lounge lizard

[lounge lizard] {n. phr.} A well-dressed male fortune hunter who sits around in bars and other public places, and attends many […]