Results for “went for a Burton”

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gone for a Burton
phrase

Killed, missing, or otherwise done for.

#military#raf#wwii#euphemism
Two and twenty
phrase

The classic hedge fund fee: 2% of assets, 20% of profits.

#finance#hedge-funds#private-equity#fees
doomer
noun

Black-beanie wojak archetype: the depressed, nihilistic early-twenties guy who's given up.

#wojak#discord#reaction#archetype
baccy
noun

Tobacco — the rollie kind, not the shop-bought twenty.

#geordie#british#smoking#dialect
M & Ms
noun

Mortality and Morbidity conference — the meeting where the team dissects what went wrong.

#medical#hospital#surgery#education
Pear-Shaped
adjective

When a plan goes wrong — 'it all went pear-shaped.'

#british#uk
Hella
adverb

Very, a lot — the NorCal intensifier that went national.

#90s#2000s#american#y2k
The Cat's Meow
noun

The gold standard of Twenties praise, the most stylish, splendid thing going.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
Ossified
adjective

Twenties slang for so drunk you've gone stiff as bone.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
The Bee's Knees
phrase

Roaring Twenties praise for the absolute best thing or person around.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#prohibition
Spifflicated
adjective

Roaring Twenties for blind drunk, one of dozens of comic synonyms born under Prohibition.

#1920s#flapper#jazz-age#vintage
We Move
phrase

Something went wrong but you keep pushing forward without dwelling on it — no complaints, we move.

#uk#british#gen-z#mle
Darkmans
noun

The night, in the cant — when the angler hooked windows and the prig went to work.

#thieves-cant#cant#historical#british