Good, the Best: the bee's knees; the cat's meow or the cat's pajamas; the berries; the Real McCoy; everyting's Jake; keen; nifty; copacetic; darb; ducky; hotsy-totsy; swell; elephant's eyebrows; gnat's whistle; eel's hips
Important Person: the Big Cheese
Illegal Liquor: Bootleg; Giggle water; Hooch; busthead; coffin varnish; horse linament
Cigarette: gasper; ciggy; fag; hope chest (pack of cigarettes); pill; Butt me (i'll take a cigarette)
Money: clam; dough; jack; rubes; kale; mazuma; ace (one dollar); Abe's Cabe (five dollar bill)
Good Dancer: hoofer; floor flusher; Oliver Twist; smudger (close dancer)
Establishment where liquor is sold: Speakeasy; Gin Mill; Juice Joint; Barrel House; drum
"Going out on the town" clothes; Glad rags; spiffy get-up
Doing something in high style: Putting on the Ritz
Woman with sex appeal: Sheba
Man with Sex Appeal: Shiek
Having a crush on someone: Stuck on; carry a torch for
Do we kiss now or later: Cash or check (check means later)
I'm going to buy whiskey: I have to go see a man about a dog
Dull or goody-goody person: Flat tire; pickle; pill; drag; rag; oilcan; wet blanket; killjoy; bluenose; Mrs. Grundy
Drunk: Ossified; spifflicated; canned; corked; tanked; primed; bent; blind; blotto; scrooched; jazzed; zozzled; plastered; owled; embalmed; lit; potted; half seas over; hoary-eyed; fried to the hat
Worthless, no purpose: trip for biscuits
Confused, messed up: balled up; nobody's home; a sap
Idle Chatter: beat one's gums
Complaint: beef
Shut up, Get lost: dry up; beat it; scram; pipe down; go chase yourself
Stupid girl: Dumb Dora
Hot-blooded girl: Bearcat
Tough Guy: bimbo
Social Outsider: Palooka
So if you ever want to confuse someone while speaking, use some of these terms. You get some weird looks but it's so worth it.
California Sun lyrics:
I was nothin' but angry, lost and on the run,
'Til I stumbled and my knees under the California sun.
Found love on Haight Street where an angel shared with me,
The secret of happiness.
One and one is three
Now my angel was made from pure Wisconsin light,
She said she would have a son, I said no, that can't be right.
She laughed and showed me the deepest mystery.
The numbers of heaven,
One and one is three
One thing about angels, they ain't always right,
We had a little baby girl made from San Francisco light.
We called her Dharma 'cause the truth was plain to see,
The miracle of life
One and one is three.
This song has some pretty deep meanings (to me anyway) I particularly like the lyric "One and one is three" The last verse is my favorite. :D
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