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The noun 'buff' alone doesn't make much sense unless you're in it. E.g. 'Caught in the buff' Now you got me looking it up, and as it turns out Quinion has his fair share to say about this one.. http://www.quinion.com/words/topicalwords/tw-buf1.htm
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>I just decided to throw in a low-brow pop-culture reference for the hell of it.
Right - dunno if all us saplings neural development is, like totally warped due to our unprecedented over-exposure to a sheer endless amount of audio-visual media, like. But, if it is, then that might 'splane a lot, a'ight.
As it turns out it led me to the 'buff' article, so thanks - I guess.
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Buff is also used to mean cut, ripped, muscular or well-defined (which are all the same thing really) but I assume this developed from buff=polish rather than in the buff.
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nattily attired. Or Natalie Attired, if you remember Bob and Ray.
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Pankey daren't sneeze, without its hankey...[groan]
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'Out of kilter' - to put everything off-rhythm and out of timing.
or off-kilter
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What's helter without skelter?
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And what would 'buff' be without 'in the'?
In a small circle, it would be a slip opinion (opinion so recently released that it is not yet in the books, but has been distributed as printed on unbound papers) from the Michigan Court of Appeals. "Buffs" is short for slip opinions of the Court of Appeals, while "blues" refers to slip opinions of the Supreme Court, because of the color of the paper on which the opinions are printed. "Pinks" refers to Court of Appeals opinions which are not designated for publication. This long-standing usage is on its way to obsolescence due to the substitution of electronic distribution of opinions.
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'Out of kilter'
I always liked Shakespeare's "the time is out of joint".
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