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BIG CHILL
PRONUNCIATION: (big CHIL)
MEANING: noun:
1. An extremely cold spell.
2. A prolonged period of global cooling or glaciation.
3. A state of emotional letdown, disillusionment, or waning enthusiasm.
4. A metaphor for death or the end of life.
ETYMOLOGY: From big, perhaps of Scandinavian origin + chill, from Old English cele (coolness). Sense 3 was influenced by the 1983 film The Big Chill in which former college idealists reunite and confront their disappointments. Earliest
documented use: 1911.
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BIG CHILI - a prize-winning pepper
BRIG CHILL - the ship's prison, being well below-decks, is quite cold
BING CHILL - cherries are best when served at 41-44 degrees F
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BUNNY BOILER
PRONUNCIATION: (BUH-nee boy-luhr)
MEANING: noun: A person who is dangerously obsessive and vengeful, especially when spurned.
ETYMOLOGY: After a character in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction who boils a pet rabbit belonging to the family of a married man who has an affair with her but then spurns her. Earliest documented use: 1990.
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BUNNY, FOILER - Bugs' role vis-à-vis Elmer Fudd
RUNNY BOILER - a gadget meant to cook soft-boiled eggs the rest of the way
BUNN, BOILER - when you use your extravagantly-expensive coffee-maker to heat water for tea (or, worse yet, soup)
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CENTRAL CASTING
PRONUNCIATION: (sen-truhl KAS-ting)
MEANING: adjective: Stereotypical.
noun: A company or department that provides actors for minor or background roles, often based on stereotypical appearances.
ETYMOLOGY: After Central Casting, a company founded in 1925 to cast actors for minor roles in film and television. Earliest documented use: 1941.
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VENTRAL CASTING - filling a mold through an orifice in its back
CENTRAL COSTING - a way of minimizing through scale the expenditures that will be needed for a particular project
CENTRAL COASTING - a sardonic way of describing the futility of making an island paradise, since the coast is by definition the periphery
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