cocktail hour The time of drinking until you cockup things and get your tail plastered
Motive
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cocktail hour The time of drinking until you cockup things and get your tail plastered
Motive
Motive: Pertaining to bodies of water that surround castles, keeps, or fortresses.
Hobgoblin
hobgoblin - an derogatory term describing ferocious gluttony and poor table manners - "Oh you should have seen him, hobgoblin' his way through his Christmas dinner!"
bilgewater -
bilgewater Water that comes in a bottle marked "Mountain Spring" which actually is pumped out of the bilge on a rusty freighter in dry dock for repairs, in the idea that you might as well make a buck or two off it.
News
News Printed or broadcast facts that may or may not be necessarily what is going on in this rum old world
Imagination
Imagination - in literature and the arts, an extremely common commodity which is a vital complement of, but no substitute for, talent
Calibration
Calibration Marked in small increments such as the amount of times you actually do good deed in a selfless manner
Fortune
Fortune
a) a large but variable amount of money, equal to about ten times whatever you've got
b) the outrageous but specific amount of money they charge for a drink at the theatre, regardless of how much you've got
Evidence
A bloke down the pub told me his mother's cousin's friend said it was an indicator of veracity.
Important.
Important: Describes an unplugged dongle.
hackneyed
hackneyed Indicative of a outrageous lie told when the truth would have been perfectly acceptable
Excuse
We've done 'excuse' before (Excuse - a post eventum explanation that even the explainer doesn't find convincing.)
Pick another one.
brainstorm
brainstorm - rather quaint Thirties word overused as a newly-fashionable verb by inept middle managers.
"I want you, me, Simon and Tamsin to get together round a piece of wood and brainstorm this re-implementation issue."
Translation: "I have no f*****g idea what to do, but if I get other people talking about it, something might come up that I can steal."
synergy
synergy: A dangerous side-effect of group-activity causing disasters that would have been avoidable by allowing people to act individually.
Delectable