Category: Colloquialisms

Here you will find “old wives tales”, superstitions and famous sayings. From “Three is the Magic Number” to language “hooks” like “of the people, by the people, and for the people. Definition: an informal word or expression which is more suitable for use in speech than in writing

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thick as thieves

Definition: Very close friends.

For example: Those two are very close. They are as thick as thieves.

Thick As Thieves (1999) – movie

Thick as ThievesMOVIE INFO

Two self-styled criminal masterminds find themselves in a turf battle neither much cares about in this underworld story that balances comedy against drama. Alec Baldwin plays Mackin, a career thief who picks his jobs shrewdly and carefully, and prefers to spend his downtime with his collection of rare jazz LP’s and looking after his dog. Pointy (Michael Jai White) is a young upstart gangster trying to develop a taste for refinement and the good life. When Pointy sets up Mackin, Mackin is forced to retaliate, and before long both men and their associates are in the middle of a war neither is especially interested in winning, which begins to escalate in comic fashion. The skirmish eventually attracts the attention of a female cop (Rebecca De Mornay) who’s become interested in Mackin’s method of operation. Thick As Thieves received its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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dohicky

doonicky, dohicky, do-hicky

an object with an unknown name, or whose name could not be thought of at the moment it was needed. 
see also thingymabob, thingymajig
hey bob, get that dohicky that changes the channel.

 

    doo·hick·ey

    noun /ˈdo͞oˌhikē/ 
    doohickeys, plural

    1. A small object or gadget, esp. one whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall
      • – a garage filled with electronic parts and other valuable doohickeys

    Web definitions
    • doodad: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known; “she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket”; “there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use”

    • Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are either temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which it is being discussed. …

    • A thing (used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall)

    • an informal placeholder term used to identify an article, object, tool, part, gadget, device, contrivance, mechanism, technique, or process whose proper name is unknown or forgotten; including dingus, gismo / gizmo, thingy / thingee, thingamabob / thingumabob, thingamajig / thingumajig, whatsis …
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three cheers

hip hip horrayThree shouts of hooray (Hoorah, Hurrah, Hurray etc…) given in unison by a group to honour someone or celebrate something.

Hip Hip Hooray

“Hip Hip Hooray” is the traditional response to “Three cheers for…” in many cultures, with the initiator calling out “Hip Hip” three times and each time the others responding “Hooray”. To this day, it is in common usage at children’s birthday parties in many parts of the English-speaking world.

The Toast – For he’s a jolly good fellow

jolly good fellowFor he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
Which nob’dy can deny.
Which nob’dy can deny.
Which nob’dy can deny.
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
Which nob’dy can deny.

 

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