I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
Eat my shorts!
I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
A lot of my friends at home call me 'Chef G.'
Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.
I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
Oh, this I have to see. I love it when you go for the vernacular. Jugular.
My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.
I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.
The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.
And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.
In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on and you're up to somethin'.
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.
Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.
Gag me with a spoon!
See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.
I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ass hurts.'
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
I don't know what the long form of OK is. I wanna think it's okie dokie. 'I'm okie dokie. I'm a little shaken up, but I'm okie dokie.' 'The good news is, she's okie dokie. The surgery went fine.'
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'
