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Able Bodied Seaman:
• A sailor who is no longer an apprentice, and not an officer.
Above Board:
• Honest, open, fair, legitimate.
• The court case was felt by others to be above board.
• If the person helping you is above board then all communication with them is honest, true, and very helpful.
• The deal was completely open and above board.
Across The Board:
• This means everybody is included.
• Originally came from horse racing, the same horse for all winning positions. The Board was the notice board that lists all of the horses and their positions.
• Means that everyone is affected equally, “across the board.”
• A pay rise ‘across the board’ means that everyone gets the pay rise. All are included.
Adhere:
• Stick to something.
• To believe in something, “He adhered to the faith.”
• “If I knew the truth of the system I would adhere to it.”
• The glue would not adhere to the wall – it just won’t stick.
Ad Hoc:
• Latin = “for this” or “for this situation”.
• Something created on the spot for a specific purpose.
• For the purpose at hand.
AD – Latin: Anno Domini, in the year of the Lord.
Advocate – Upholder. Champion. Spokesperson. Campaigner. An advocate for peace. Pleads for someone, or in behalf of another person, an intercessor.
Aetiological.
Aiding and Abetting – Aiding and abetting is a legal doctrine related to the guilt of someone who aids or abets another person in the commission of a crime. It exists in a number of different countries and generally allows a court to pronounce someone guilty for aiding and abetting in a crime even if they are not the principal offender. – Wikipedia.
Albeit:
• Though.
• Even Though
• Although
All that glitters is Not Gold:
• Meaning that if something is pretty it may be evil, bad, poison, not good for you.
• Some flowers and plants are beautiful to the human eye yet poisonous to human if touched or eaten.
• Not all things are as they look, is another way to say all that glitters is not gold.
• Not everyone who appears at first to be good ends up being good for you.
• What at first appears to be the perfect situation could end up being living-hell, be careful of what you get involved in.
• A first impression or series of thoughts may be 100% wrong, time shows us the truth.
Alma Mater:
• Literally means kind Mother. Latin.
• The University a student attended.
• The university, school, or college that one formerly attended. – Oxford Languages.
A Keeper – A keeper tends to mean a thing to keep.
• “She’s a keeper.” means she is someone worth keeping.
• “Thats a keeper!” means basically whatever the person is talking about is worth keeping.
• If you cut some wood and it is perfect measurement then you would think that piece of wood was a keeper, the one to keep.
AM:
• Before Noon/Lunchtime.
• Ante Meridian.
Anon:
• Anonymous.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor:
• A quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• An easy life teaches us very little.
• The hard knocks of life make us wiser and mature.
• When it rains you need to learn to adapt to rain. When there is a storm at sea you must learn to survive in the storms. A wise experienced sailor (Been in a lot of storms and survived) is a capable sailor when times get rough. The new sailor cannot be relied on due to lack of wisdom in tough times and lack of experience as a sailor.
• You become a more effective, courageous, confident person when you experience the harder side of life, and from that you are more capable and able.
• When we do the hard yards we succeed.
• When we step forward and do the things that others run from we become better people.
Archaic:
• Old Fashioned.
• Words no longer really used, but can be sometimes used nowadays from time to time.
• An early period of art or culture.
Auger– helical shaft or part that is used for boring holes.
Authority:
• Parents. Government, laws and so on.
• Those who assume that they have the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience, especially to control the masses and to keep them in order as the authority see’s fit to do so.
AV:
• Authorized Version of the Bible.
Aversion Therapy:
• A form of psychological treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to some form of discomfort. – Wikipedia.
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B.A:
• Bachelor of Arts.
Bad News Travels Fast:
• When something bad but exciting happens people spread it fast so everyone knows.
• People learned that saying bad things about a person/people gets spread from person-to-person faster than good news about someone.
• People tend to spread bad news rather quickly.
Baker’s Dozen:
• I read that back in the 16th Century the baker would leave 13 loaves of bread instead of 12 to the retailer when the retailer ordered a dozen loaves, because the thirteenth loaf was the retailers profit.
BC:
• Before Christ.
BCE:
• Before Christian Era. Before Common Era.
Beats Me:
• Means “I don’t know”.
• I have no idea.
• I Haven’t a clue.
Bee’s Knee’s, The:
• The Bee’s Knee’s originally meant something small, such as a bee’s knee’s 🙂 Today it means something wonderful.
• It can mean fancy or expensive, or a highly admired thing or person.
• It can be said spitefully or sarcastically as well.
• “I want a new fridge, it doesn’t have to be the bee’s knee’s, just as long as it works.”
• “Well, isn’t she just the bee’s knees.” said the two jealous women.
• “Well, isn’t she just the bee’s knees.” said the young man admiring her.
Bias:
• Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned. People may develop biases for or against an individual, a group, or a belief. In science and engineering, a bias is a systematic error. – Wikipedia.
• Prejudice in a certain direction.
• An inclination towards something or someone in favour of it/them.
• A bias may be favorable or unfavorable: bias in favor of or against an idea. – Dictionary.com.
Bibliophile:
• A person that collects books, loves reading books.
• Bibliophilia/Bibliophilism are the words to describe the love of books.
• The Bookworm is the person who loves reading books, like the Bibliophile.
Bite Your Tongue:
• Be quiet, don’t say anything.
• I had to bite my tongue to avoid saying something wrong.
• I was told to bite my tongue so that I would not say something wrong.
Blowout:
• (Carpentry) – A blow out is when the cutting edge of your tool causes the wood to crack and tears out a chunk of wood, generally when ending the cut.
Blow outs can be reduced or prevented, by:
– Cutting routes that end in 0 thickness/degrees, opposed to exiting the piece at 90 degrees.
– Using a backing block or sacrificial block to apply pressure to the surface the tool is exiting.
– Using Tape to hold the surface taunt.
– Moisture content plays role too, drier than 10 % tends to blow out more, higher than 10% tends to blow out less.
– Grain orientation also can play a role, cross grain tends to blow out more than going with the grain.
– Depth of cut also play s a role, deeper cuts tend to blow out more.
Advice from Garet Emmerson. 27th of June, 2017.
• A flat tire on a vehicle.
Boldness:
• Someone who takes risks, goes ahead when others don’t, their bold attitude inspires other to walk alongside this person.
• Daring, heroic, brave, valiant, valorous, dauntless, audacious, adventurous.
• Someone who is not hesitating to break the rules for the right reasons.
• A risk taker.
• The fierceness of knowing that one is right makes them bold and unafraid of truth and what they do, because it is the right thing to do for others – boldness is power of will, determination to succeed.
• Also there are those who are said to be bold in appearance.
By the skin of my teeth:
• In the Bible in the Book of Job, it states in Chapter 19, verse 20: “My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”
• You can imagine that the skin of your teeth is not much, so it means that you just made it, just succeeded, just achieved your goal by a little bit extra than the others, and so on.
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Carabiners – is a special type of shackle which is a metal loop with a spring-loaded gate/latch used to quickly and reversibly connect components, most notably in safety-critical systems.
Cavil:
• Raise irritating and trivial objections.
• find fault unnecessarily.
• Make petty or unnecessary objections.
Carp On About Something:
• Complain, but in an irritating way, maybe with nagging.
Causality:
• Cause and Effect.
• Things influence other things.
• By which one event, process, state or object (a cause of some sort) contributes to another event.
CE – Common Era.
Charley Horse:
• A painful muscle spasm in the leg.
• A peculiar contraction and hardening of the muscles and tendons of the thigh – Joe Quest. Possibly Joe coined the phrase.
Circa:
• Approximately, roughly, around about.
• c. 1985 could mean “around about 1985”.
• Can be: c. ca. circ. cca. or cc. “This painting is circa 1776”.
Clemency:
• Lenience.
• Mercy.
Click-Bait – Is a link, image, that is designed to be attractive or to have you curious enough to click on it, but it tends to be deceptive. Web Sites or advertising can use click-bait to get the person to click on a link to get them to buy something, vote, and possibly something they would not have previously done if they had not been seduced/enticed to click on the link, image, button, advertising etc.
• Can be teasers that cause you to be interested in their item (video, site page etc) but in order to get all the entertainment/information you must click on the link/image or whatever.
• You will get some information that will cause you to be curious, but it is never enough to satisfy your curiosity, so you must click on the bait to be satisfied.
• The bait can be misleading and when one clicks on the link one finds out that it is not what they were led to believe it is, but the idea is to hope you will stay once you have clicked on the bait.
• They might sensualize the bait o that the viewer will click on the bait.
Coercion:
• To convince a person by fear, threats, & force.
• To compel.
• To dominate by force.
Coined The Phrase:
• To coin a phrase means to invent a new saying or idiomatic expression that is new or unique. – Grammerist.
Collaborate:
• To work with others on a project.
• To work jointly with another group to achieve a goal.
Colonialism:
• The taking over of another country, creating political rules according to the invading countries beliefs, with the aim of economic dominance.
• The British Empire was well known for this in the past.
Comely:
• Pleasant to look at; attractive, maybe in a mature way.
• Typically about a woman.
Comeuppance:
• What person deserves as in punishment or fate.
• A deserved rebuke.
• A penalty to be paid.
• One of these days that weasel will get his comeuppance for the things he has done to others.
• And when a know-it-all art critic (Rebecca Spence) receives her own ghastly comeuppance, DaCosta shoots it from an elegant distance that heightens the horror. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Aug.
2021 . Merriam Webster.
• A person’s bad luck that is considered to be a fair and deserved punishment for something bad that they have done, “She’ll get her comeuppance.” – Dictionary Cambridge.
Concept:
• A plan, idea, invention, conception, something conceived, thought up, in the mind.
• Can be based on real phenomena and is a generalized idea of something of meaning.
Concur – Agree, of the same opinion. Something happened or occurred at the same time; coincide.
Conformity:
• Is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours to group norms, politics or being like minded.
• Norms are implicit, specific rules, shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others. – Wikipedia.
Consternation – A feeling of dismay. Confusion. Befuddled.
• A feeling of surprise, sudden disappointment that causes confusion.
Complex – “She has a complex”
Crescendo – A gradual increase, such as a gradual increase in volume/sound.
• A gradual increase in excitement.
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Dairy –: In New Zealand when someone says that they are “Going to the Dairy” it means that they are going to the small shop not too far from their house.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Deluge – A large downpour of rain, or a flood.
• Example: What people call the Flood in the time of Noah when he had to build the Ark to hold the animals and his family. All the earth was covered in water as it rained 40 days and nights. The people…of the time except Noah and his family were wicked in thought and deed and so a cleansing of evil practices and evil people was needed to give those of the future a new chance. Noah was told to take animals, male and female of every kind, and get food for the animals. This has always been a favorite Bible story and the moral of the story is obvious.
Done its dash – Had it, broken very possibly for good. Done it guts and done its dash could be in some way connected.
Don’t judge a book by its cover – Don’t judge something by its outward appearance.
Don’t Put All your Eggs in One Basket.
Down in the dumps:
• Feeling very low. Depressed. Heart broken.
Done its guts:
• I have no idea where this came from, but basically it means that the item or person being talked about has had it, over, its time of usefulness is over.
• If it were a car and the engine had blown with a big bang an observer would; say, “Oh geez man, she’s done her guts.” Meaning that the cars motor is totaled, wrecked, had it and due for the junk yard for parts or to the dump.
Drag:
• “Its a drag“, “Such a drag“, “What a drag“, means its boring, a hassle, annoying, “She is such a drag, who invited her?”.
• Take a drag means breathing in smoke, sometimes in means a long slow breathing-in of the smoke.
• Drag Racing is two cars side by side racing to see who is the fastest, an acceleration contest from a standing start between two vehicles over a measured distance.
Eat Your Words (Eat all your words):
• Retract your words (Take back what you said).
• Retract false allegations, possibly in a humiliated way.
• Means eat the words that you said previously, take them back.
• Feel foolish about what one has previously said to others.
• Retract a statement or accusation as untrue or unjustified about something or someone.
Elevenses:
• Different meaning to some degree in various countries.
• In United Kingdom as the name suggests a snack at 11:00 in the morning with tea or coffee.
• In New Zealand and Australia it is Morning Tea, around 10:30 am.
Eloquent:
• Fluent.
• Articulate.
• Expressing themself clearly.
• Persuasive in speech and/or writing..
• A speaker who expresses themselves clearly and powerfully.
• Said of Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech, having, or characterized by, eloquence; fluent, forceful, and persuasive.
Et Al:
• …and others.
• Short for the Latin phrase et alia.
Evasive – Learn to recognise and Evasive Answer.
• It is when someone is asked a question, and they are that question without giving a satisfying answer, but to someone who trusts them the answer could or would be sufficient even if unhelpful.
• It is like when you accuse someone of something that the answer that they give fails to admit or deny the allegations set forth in the complaint. They hope that because you love or like them, or have found them honorable in the past that you will be satisfied with their evasive answer and let it go at that, therefore leaving them to continue their crimes.
• Lawyers harsh questioning is often to get past evasive answers to get the real truth.
• The evasive Answer is when they talk, hug, get your confidence back, often retell the lies of before, and actually tell you nothing that will answer the original accusations or inquiries that you made.
• If the person being asked is within your trust then they can tell you nothing of which you original;y wanted to know, but give you a feeling of comfort, friendship, love and faith in them once again – thus simply fooling you all over again.
If someone is dodging the truth then they are being evasive.
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Faux Pas:
• Mistake.
• A slip up.
• “The faux pas was glossed over.”
• A social mistake a person makes.
• A slip or blunder in etiquette, or manners.
• The more she worried about it the more she could make a faux pas.
Flogging a dead horse.
For all intents and purposes – Essentially. Has the same affect.
Foreshadow:
• An Omen.
• Prophecy.
• A warning of a future event.
• An indication of a future event.
• In writing ‘to keep the reader in suspense’.
• Like clouds are a warning of possible rain.
• Can have a suggestion of something bad to come.
• Can be a suggestion of something to come – good or bad.
Fortune favours the brave – Good fortune comes to those of great courage. “You’ll never get anything if you don’t ask for it.
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Get-Go – From the beginning. “Thomas had trouble with the exam from the get-go!”
Given the third-degree – Given a hard time by those who want to know something from someone and are determined to get it. Interrogated. “I am sure that Joe will spill the beans the way that they are giving him the third degree like that.”
God Speed/Godspeed:
• “Goodbye and Godspeed.”
• Often said as a wish of good ill.
• “God speed to you on your journey.”
• “Good luck and go with God’s Speed!”
• Possibly like, “Farewell, and God be with you on your journey.”
• As an expression of good wishes to a person or group departing on a journey.
• Wishing a person or a group of people, that they get to a destination with speed and God’s protection and guidance.
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Hat-Trick – 3 goals in a game. Originated in cricket, and was used when a bowler took three wickets from three consecutive balls.
Humdrum – Dull, boring, uninteresting, jading. “The movie was humdrum, I couldn’t stop yawning all through it.”
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Inert:
• Chemically inactive.
• The accident victim was lying on the ground inert.
• Inactive, passive.
Inflation – A word used to describe the general rise in prices in an economy.
In Spades – Spades is the highest-ranking suit in various card games, so it means to the extreme.
“You will be repaid in spades!” Jerry told his boss what he thought of the project in spades. Seems kind of like Jerry told his boss what he thought of the project, and went overboard, and said it all.
Is it feasible? – “Is it doable?” Is possible to do easily or can it be done conveniently? Can we do this? Can we get this done?
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Just Deserts:
• Getting what one deserves.
• “She got her just deserts for being so mean to me.”
• Getting the appropriate punishment, what one deserves.
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Metadata – Simply put, Data that provides information about other Data.
• Music file metadata is the Album, Artist, the Year Released and so on.
• The prefix meta means “an underlying definition or description.”
Molle:
• Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment.
• Used in the Armed Forces, Police, Security etc.
• Uses PALS Webbing.
• Molle allows accessories to be attached to Mollie Panels, Backpacks, vests and the like.
Myopic – Means Shortsighted in view or in mentality.
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Necessity is the mother of invention – Plato “our need will be the real creator”.
• When we have a need, we will find a way, or we will invent it.
• “”When the need for something becomes imperative, you are forced to find ways of getting or achieving it”.
• “If you really need to do something, then you will find a way of doing it”.
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On Par – To be “on par” is to be at the level, or standard, as someone else.
“On Point”:
• “On the mark.”
• “Thats it.
• “Thats exactly what I mean.”
• “You got it!”
Opt:
• A choice when one has options.
• A choice she opted for rather than the other opportunities/possibilities.
• Jane opted for the vegetarian dinner rather than her usual meat choice.
• John Decided to opt for a new battery powered chainsaw rather than a petrol powered chainsaw.
Ostracize:
• Outcast from society.
• To exclude someone from a group of people.
• To throw out, exclude, cast away, reject, cold shoulder etc.
Over the ditch – Often means over the sea to Australia if you live in New Zealand.
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Packing a sad – Having a tantrum, or having a fit, losing the plot, going overboard.
• Packing a sad because they didn’t get their own way.
• Basically losing control of one’s self and the onlookers are watching and saying, “Wow, he is sure packing a sad! Dude needs to grow up and learn that he can’t have it his own way all the time.”
Per Contra – On the other hand. Contrasting contradiction. Against. Contrary. As an offset. By way of contrast.
Pink Slip – A letter of dismissal of your employment.
Poetic Justice:
• The outcome where a bad deed by someone is paid back by some other bad deed or mishap, bad luck and so on, that is more than likely not related to the bad deed.
• If someone cheats and is not caught, justice is served against them in another way.
• It may mean that a kind person helps another and gets a reward that they were not after, but deserved.
• A person may rob someone and then go right around the corner in their car and crash into a Police car and got arrested for dangerous driving and the robbery, that is poetic justice, they got what they deserved and more.
PPE:
• Personal Protective Equipment.
• Your general personal safety equipment, such as eye protection, face protection, head protection such as a helmet, etc.
• Protective clothing, respiration devices, and protective shields and barriers.
• Hand and feet protection and so on.
Prognosis:
• The likely outcome of…
• The likely outcome of a disease.
• The likely outcome of the course of a illness.
• The expected outcome of a disease.
• If you know the prognosis, this can help you determine whether it makes more sense to attempt certain treatments or to withhold them, and thus plays an important role in end-of-life decisions and advanced care planning.
Pros and Cons – Pros are for an argument, the good things about something and Cons are the opposite.
• The argument for (Pros) or against (Cons) something.
• For example, you can make a list of the Pros and a list of the Cons – if there are more Pros then you would more than likely agree with that idea/argument/decisions etc.
• The phrase ‘pros and cons’ is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase pro et contra, ‘for and against’, and has been in use in the abbreviated form since the 16th century – The Oxford English Dictionary.
PS:
• Postscript.
• Latin – post scriptum – written after.
• An afterthought, something that the writer thinks needs to be added.
• Writing that has been added after the end of a letter, article, after the signature.
• Wikipedia states: ‘A postscript may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book’.
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Secular:
• Secularism has many meanings.
• To separate church/religion from state, government and so on.
• Not connected with spiritual or religious matters.
• ‘of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests. not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred): secular music. (of education, a school, etc.)’ – Dictionary.com.
South Paw – Left Handed. Originally seems to have come from
Baseball.
Spill the beans – Tell all. Tell the authorities or whoever what they don’t want them to know. Jenny has been in the principals office long enough, I am sure that she is going to spill the beans on us all.
Subpar. – Means to be below average.
Survivorship bias or Survivor Bias:
Swallow Your Pride:
• A person may have spoken out of line and had to apologize even though it embarrassed he or she.
• We do something in and anger and pridefully then have to take it back and correct what we did wrong, we have to swallow our pride.
• To swallow our pride is to do something even though we will feel embarrassed, and even ashamed.
• To admit (possibly publicly) that something you have said was wrong.
• A person may feel that he is too good for a certain job, but when he loses his old job he has to swallow his pride and take the job he thinks that he is to good for to pay the rent.
• Eat Humble Pie.
Swings and Roundabouts –
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Take The Gloves Off – Gloves soften the blow in boxing.
• Taking off the gloves means a harsher more solid impact.
• In a situation where someone says that he will take the gloves off, he means that he is not going to be as soft in his attack, or in his methods anymore – the idea is to make a more powerful impact. When this happens, you can say ‘the gloves are off’.
• “Right, from now of the gloves are off!” , says the man and warning someone that he is not going to be Mr Nice Guy anymore.
Talisman – A charm. Seen as a symbol of Good Luck. A Rabbits Foot is seen as good luck. A lucky charm. Worm to ward off bad luck, protection against ill will, or to give good luck. Thought to have magic power. Something hoped to give superpowers of protection.
Someone regarded by some as representing and inspiring a particular group.
Time Will Tell.
The Penny Dropped.
“Top of the morning to ya” – Good morning to you.
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User Friendly. – Something, such as a tool, machine, equipment and so on that is easy to use, useful, easy to understand. As if it was designed to be easy to use at the get-go, and it is useful to use so much so that it really helps with what you are doing, like they had the customer in mind very much and ease of use when it was designed. c
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Where there is a Will, There is a Way – If you desire it, you will make it happen.
• If someone has the desire and determination to do something, he or she can find a method for making it happen.
• If you are determined to do something, nothing can stop you.
• You will find a way if the need is important to you.
• While things may seem impossible she felt that if she applied herself to the task she will find a way.
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You are your own Worst Enemy:
• A person who refuses to see their own faults.
• A person who makes bad and foolish choices.
• A person who blames others for their own failings.
• A person who does not learn from their own mistakes.
• A person who lifts themself up while putting others down.
• The person makes negative choices for themself and suffers the consequences.
Your Calling (Calling):
• Your calling in Life.
• Your God given Destiny.
• A Divine purpose for your life.
• A strong desire or want to do something.
• It is God’s blessing for you, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth
• One day your true calling will become obvious to you and you will know that this is your path.
• Your true calling in life is something that you feel driven towards and it feels natural and good.
• Your feeling for a particular career or occupation that you feel that you are very much suited for.
• Your feeling for a particular lifestyle that you feel that you are very much suited for, your natural place in the Universe.