A fork of Rural Dictionary
A weak, spineless, gutless individual. Origin of this phrase is not know though it appears in "A Thief in the Night - A Book of Raffle's Adventures" by Ernest William 1861-1921.
"You little rabbit!" he chuckled. "You shall have your share, whether you come or not; but, seriously, don't you think you might remember the girl?" Rugby football coach to boy with the ball feigning bravery on the field "Run you little rabbit!"
A way of cursing without technically cursing. The term is often utilized by Christians trying to sound cool.
Grant: "Fweet!" (Christian trying to sound cool) Alison and Henley: "That was a curse word."
Someone who wears a khaki uniform - eg army - as opposed to a 'blue job' which refers in Britain to naval or airforce personnel. At the end of WW2 'blue job' also referred to members of the Allied Control Commission who wore blue uniforms.
I wrote to the Foreign Office and was told to go home and come back in my new uniform. From the khaki of UNRRA to the blue uniform of the Control Commission. In the language of the day I went home a brown job and came back a blue job. Their job was to maintain the equipment, both wireless and flare piles which were large beacon pipes which were switched on when the bombers had taken off or returned. Stan enjoyed this job as he said, “A blue job’s better than a brown job.” What ever it will be, it'll be called a brown job ! He seems hoist by his own petard - yet another example of a brown job supporting those who say they are ill-suited to discuss Air Force matters. It was a pity to spoil a good article by a cheap sideswipe at the junior service. She said no, of course, because I was never, or ever would be, a "brown job"! Some people will never grasp the difference between Marines and Army! ... She had to keep a low profile because the naval types thought that going out with a "brown job" was tantamount to mutiny
A hillock, small heap, switch-back hill, old slag heap or industrial working. A phrase which seems to have originated in the north of England and Scotland. Probably derived from tump, a barrow or Neolothic burial ground and numpsy meaning 'low life' Generally, used in the plural, numpsy tumps.
Plenty of numpsy tumps where I go mountain biking. The wretched moles have been busy again. Numpsy tumps everywhere. I love the Scottish lochs and numpsy tumps. Motoring at its best: the numpsy tumps of the Yorkshire wolds.
A milieu or environment inhabited by ruthless, competitive individuals - societies, companies, communities, organisations, polital parties and other groupings where extreme competitive activity takes place. Also commonly misspelt as pirhana pool. Known too as piranha bowl
He earned his spurs in the piranha pool called Georgia politics. He has become a boiled brisket in the piranha pool that is Israeli politics. Plain-speaking, sense of humour and ability - truly remarkable in the piranha pool of Westminster politics - made no enemies... The Apprentice (programme) is a piranha pool for the contestants. After a week best described as the 'diplomatic piranha pool' in New York, the UN managed to agree a 35-page document for reform. Then there is the piranha-pool of Parliament, an especial burden for British ministers It is a ‘piranha pool’ out there for the inexperienced buyer. Please take some time to read our extensive advice page sections.
A person of any age who is mentally fossilised, cautious, brain-dead, dull, unimaginative, dinosauric, living in the past, not with-it, or has lost his marbles. Someone who is uncomfortable with the age of the Internet and mobile phones and still communicates by snail mail and gets his information from the library. A dodo. Named after Jurassic Park, the film, and the coastline in Dorset, England, now known too as Jurassic Park, with its ammonites and other fossils. An inhabitant of Lyme Regis, Dorset. Fossil Hunters.
A horde of Jurassic Parkers got off the coach for a 'pit-stop'. Strung out a long the beach, armed with geological hammers and backpacks,were a dozen keen Jurassic Parkers examining the rocks for ammonites they could take home for the mantlepiece. He stood scratching his head in bewilderment and chuntering to himself about the need to check it all again - a Jurassic Parker in complete faff mode. The group left without him.
A cock-up, stupid mistake or indiscretion that only an idiot or moron would make. See 'prat', a total 'whally'
I also had a spectacular prat fall while shopping that resulted in a pool of blood. And so we're back to the time honoured game of waiting for top politicians to take a prat-fall. He has evolved into a kind of snarling, brilliantined Monsieur Hulot, a world specialist in the diplomatic prat-fall and coq-up. At a conference earlier this year, he posited that the classic banana-peel pratfall is funny only when the victim gets up, and that we laugh to alert "other members of our kin.. A clumsy comedy pratfall worthy of Laurel and Hardy.