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a cheap or poor (repair) job, can range from inelegant but effective to outright failure. e.g. "You properly bodged that up" ("you really made a mess of that"). (US: kludge , botch or cob , shortened form of cobble ) See Bodger .
This sent the price of a 50-pound bag of onions down to only 10 cents, less than the value of the empty bag. [1] [2] Effectively, the price of the onions was negative. [3] The incident led to the passing of the Onion Futures Act. The video game crash of 1983 was largely caused by excess inventory of low-quality games.
A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low budget commercial motion picture.Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically referred to films meant to be shown as the lesser-known second half of a double feature, somewhat similar to B-sides in recorded music.
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Often only the first word is used, so plates and twist by themselves become the colloquialisms for "feet" and "girl". [9] Thieves' cant or Rogues' cant was a secret language (a cant or cryptolect) which was formerly used by thieves, beggars and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking countries.
Image credits: historycoolkids #3. Ronald (left) and Carl McNair (right) were born 10 months apart in the Segregated South. The two were inseparable as toddlers and well into adulthood.
5. Cheap room in hotel or bed; 1910s [171] 6. Abrupt change in political policy [171] 7. Seat [172] 8. Hit; knock down; 1910s [171] flophouse. Main article: Flophouse. Cheap transient hotel used by people down on their luck [173] flour lover Girl with too much face powder [147] fluky Odd; Different [147] fly boy. Main article: Airman