New vocabulary

term	Description
acquaintance	He's not really a friend. He's more like an acquaintance.
baffled
bogus
bribe
bushwhack
crawl back
dotty
far-fetched
gig
lovelorn
gullible
measly
numb
petty
quibble
relentless
spry
stake	Our very lives can be at stake.
swine
wallow
harbormaster
shipyard
aft	I can't tell the aft from the stern.
stern	I can't tell the aft from the stern.
lapdog	You're such a little lapdog.
pop	Why can't they find her pops, man?
shudder	I shudder to think.
thaw out	That's no big deal, Sid. You'll thaw out.
wallow	I can't wallow in the grief process forever.
woozy	I'm feeling a little woozy here.
peer	Peer pressure. I'm far too sensitive.
forfeiture	Any systematised transmission indicating intelligent origin must be investigated on penalty of total forfeiture of shares.
hull	Is the hull breached?
hatch	An organism. Open the hatch.
hasty	Let's not be too hasty.
collate	As I said, I'm still collating.
jeopardize	Maybe I've jeopardised the rest of us, but it was a risk I was willing to take.
smother	I remember some horrible dream about smothering.
stiff	In general, dolls branded for girls are stiff—they can move their arms and legs at best, and handheld accessories look uncanny in their ever rigid hands.
albeit	These famous dollhouses, albeit luxurious and detailed, had boring to death structures.
akin	At that moment, the big doll hides in the closet and the small one comes out of a shelf, implying a transformation akin to Alice’s.
prowess	Now that Polly is tiny, she can “go there” to show off her skating prowess!
plaid	I'm dreaming of a plaid Christmas, completely unlike the ones I used to know.
scavenger
ravage
shatter
grapple	They grapple each other in a savage melee.
pervade	especially as the wave of on-the-nose systemic metaphors keeps pervading the medium’s fetishes
debunk	It is hard, however, to draw the line in regard to the so-called political games since they openly reproduce such systems to debunk them afterwards.
misbegotten	And well, this isn’t a misbegotten premise in and of itself, but leads to some serious problems when it comes to boy geniuses.
savvy	And as much as the aforementioned notions of savvy design are shaped by these technocrats (...)
thoroughly	In fact, the game as a whole, as you may have already guessed, is thoroughly embroiled in the roots of late capitalism.
embroil	In fact, the game as a whole, as you may have already guessed, is thoroughly embroiled in the roots of late capitalism.
inasmuch	Videogame’s political consciousness appears to be neglected in general, with notable exceptions proving the rule inasmuch as they’re forced to grow on the outskirts.
chatterbox	Boy, that guy was a real chatterbox, wasn't he?
frantic	Because the pace is so frantic, every choice you make has to matter a lot.
weasel	The guy's a weasel.
laid-back	Oh, so your laid-back, natural lifestyle is one of your secrets to your appeal...
bellhop	Oh, so you can't go to Vegas, but she can fuck a bellhop on a Carnival Curise Line?
gross out	Yeah, I do believe that because she's grossed out by semen.
frown upon	It's not illegal, it's frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane.
quaint	No, it's so quaint.
denial	Wow. He's in denial.
rack	Ma'am, in the leopard dress, you have an amazing rack.
fudge up	I'm sorry, I fudged up, guys.
hath	Consider God's handwork: who can straighten what He hath made crooked?
crooked	Consider God's handwork: who can straighten what He hath made crooked?
tamper	I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother Nature wants us to.
second to none	A genetic quotient second to none.
burden	Your child doesn't need any additional burdens.
guise	In the guise of Jerome Morrow, I have risen quickly through the ranks of Gattaca.
ploy	A ploy to get me cooking again.
overweening	Some sort of overweening pride, I suppose.
fatten up	Fatten that baby up.
bear up	He simply bears up, and he does it because he's a man.
hunch	Your hunch was right.
gambit	Walt says he's not going anywhere so that's a really brilliant gambit on my part.
dreck	As long as it's that ridiculous Chili P or some other dreck but don't even think abour using my formula.
ram	I say we just ram him.
nab	They nab me... I make a deal to give up the great Heisenberg and his million-dollar drug ring.
hoax	Arriving at the hospital, I learned the emergency call was a hoax.
gander	Well, take a gander. Prices are negotiable.
wang	Stop a bullet like a soft wang against a Quaker girl. Ain't getting through.
bone	Told you. Dude's totally boning us.
spillage	Well, what about spillage?
swatter	This is a swatter.
shuttle	We're making meth here, all right? Not space shuttles.
turd	Did you know that there's an acceptable level of rat turds that get into candy bars?
sling	They goy Tomás slinging.
hearsay	That's hearsay. Do you have any proof?
yawp	A yawp is yell.
doff	Well, I doff my proverbial cap to you, sir.
gulf	That last 3 percent... it may not sound like a lot, but it is. It's a tremendous gulf.
stud	Dad, you're such a stud. How much did you win exactly?
jibe	That's pretty rare these days but it does jibe with the blue stuff I've been tracking.
mitt	No, no, no. You keep your mitts off me. I'm good. I'm good.
bona fide	Now, this Gale Boetticher is a bona fide chemistry genius.
wazoo	I mean, he's got degrees up the wazoo, right?
snot-nose	I'm talking to some snot-nose lawyer who's asking me for my badge number.
napkin	That napkin.
dunce	These guys usually get a dunce to pull the trigger, right?
fodder	This is all good fodder for you to request a sit-down with Gus so you can discuss what you would say for questioning.
maverick	The guy has gone totally maverick. He's Miss Daisy with binoculars.
scram	Guys, go, go, go. Scram.
rile up	Yeah, speaking of things that tend to rile you up... the police, they may call.
shrug off	I will not have my children living in a house where dealing drugs and hurting people and killing people is shrugged off as "shit happens".
bide	Hold on, bide my time and wait.
sloppy	Even by cop standards, this is sloppy.
uptight	Look, she didn't seem crazy to me, you know? She just seem, like, uptight.
mope around	Hey, man, look at the sad sack I found moping around the lobby.
fester	I'm glad you're on it. That's not something you wanna let fester.
suss out	I say we keep listening, suss out how much time we have.
skid row	We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.
scrounge	We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.
skell	We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.
smurf	We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.
piddling	Well, maybe we better talk about it a little more because what it sounds like you're telling me, Mike, is that from now on we have no choice but to do this piddling pseudo cook so that we can pay back your guys.
quandary	Walter, I've got a bit of a quandary here.
quiver	The poor man can't spend a few minutes with his granddaughter without you guys quivering in the bushes and peeping through your binoculars.
ripcord	Whatever you got planned, you best pull the ripcord while you still have a chance.
tepid	Yours is just some tepid off-brand, generic cola.
squander	And what, you wanna squander that potential?
brass tacks	Brass tacks. Okay, my job is to advise and my advice is, come on, already.
scabby	To whom? A bunch of scabby Arizona tweakers?
rake in	But apparently Jesse is raking it in.
crank up	Maybe I can get him cranked up enough that he starts yapping.
yap	Maybe I can get him cranked up enough that he starts yapping.
tick away	So I'm looking all around, because I know we're not done but the gallons are slowly ticking away.
reel	I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family.
poise	I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family.
rinse off	I could have rinsed off at the station.
brimming with	Just brimming with advice.
ruthless	Hey, Walt's ruthless.
skimp	Don't skimp on family, that's what I always say.
barge in	I'm sorry to just barge in on you like this but I was hoping that I could have a moment to talk with you.
simmer down	Whoa, simmer down there, sparky.
galore	Last week’s episode was a Leone movie, I saw someone remark on Twitter—outsized drama, heightened style, breathless suspense, posturing galore
soothe	Maybe that soothes some troubled waters.
nil	On the TV front, the reception's pretty much nil.
flue	The flue can be tricky.
stove	Know how to work the stove?
wheedle	Later he wheedles Lydia into accepting this as a tolerable level of risk, as opposed to a more permanent solution, which she would no doubt prefer.
have a gander	Take a look at him. Have a gander.
bewildering	The first thing we see in that pilot is a bewildering flash-forward to a moment of absurd crisis.
henpecked	How, we wonder as the show settles into its premise-setting after the cold open, are we going to get from Walter White, henpecked husband, humiliated car wash employee, and underpaid teacher, to a pantless, gas-masked figure waving a gun on a desert road?
irretrievably	That quotation also functions as a switch that sets in motion, irretrievably, the gears that will bring us to these final moments.
plea	And when he finally confronts Uncle Jack’s gang at their compound, his sickly appearance and pathetic plea to sell them a new blue-meth process convince them that he’s no threat.
set out	When I set out for Lyonnesse,/A hundred miles away,/The rime was on the spray,/And starlight lit my lonesomeness [Thomas Hardy]
rime	When I set out for Lyonnesse,/A hundred miles away,/The rime was on the spray,/And starlight lit my lonesomeness [Thomas Hardy]
lonesomeness	When I set out for Lyonnesse,/A hundred miles away,/The rime was on the spray,/And starlight lit my lonesomeness [Thomas Hardy]
bechance	What would bechance at Lyonnesse/While I should sojourn there/No prophet durst declare,/Nor did the wisest wizard guess [Thomas Hardy]
sojourn	What would bechance at Lyonnesse/While I should sojourn there/No prophet durst declare,/Nor did the wisest wizard guess [Thomas Hardy]
durst	What would bechance at Lyonnesse/While I should sojourn there/No prophet durst declare,/Nor did the wisest wizard guess [Thomas Hardy]
surmise	When I returned from Lyonnesse/With magic in my eyes,/All marked with mute surmise/My radiance rare and fathomless [Thomas Hardy]
fathomless	When I returned from Lyonnesse/With magic in my eyes,/All marked with mute surmise/My radiance rare and fathomless [Thomas Hardy]
strew with	She wears too much the guise she wore/Before our lutes were strewn/With years-deep dust, and names we read/On a white stone were hewn. [Thomas Hardy]
hew	She wears too much the guise she wore/Before our lutes were strewn/With years-deep dust, and names we read/On a white stone were hewn. [Thomas Hardy]
bruiser	A pair of barons, referred to internally by id Software as the "bruiser brothers," star as the bosses at the end of Knee-Deep in the Dead, the first episode of Doom.
spruce	Very spruce. [28 days later]
shredded	Very shredded. [28 days later]
kettle	Put the kettle on. [28 days later]
cope	Hannah is what Frank says she is. Tough, strong, and she'll cope just like I'll cope. [28 days later]
soppy	Don't just stand there, you soppy cunt! Get after them! [28 days later]
grind	I grind the horrid edelwood trees into oil. [Over the garden wall]
horrid	I grind the horrid edelwood trees into oil. [Over the garden wall]
burden	This is my lot in life. This is my burden. [Over the garden wall]
mournful	The beast haunts this woods, ever singing his mournful melody. [Over the garden wall]
give the runaround	That frog's giving me the runaround. [Over the garden wall]
mollify	The beast cannot be mollified like some farmer's pet! [Over the garden wall]
husking bee	Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee. [Over the garden wall]
ditch	How about you and I ditch your brother? [Over the garden wall]
obnoxious	Hey, not to be obnoxious, but an abandoned ghost town doesn't seem like it's gonna be that useful getting you guys home. [Over the garden wall]
don	Oh, pardon me there. Say, you folks ought to don your vegetables and celebrate the harvest with us. [Over the garden wall]
trample	Now let me get this straight... You come to our town, you trample our crops, you interrupt our private engagement, and now you want to leave? [Over the garden wall]
crop	Now let me get this straight... You come to our town, you trample our crops, you interrupt our private engagement, and now you want to leave? [Over the garden wall]
sadden	Children, it saddens me that you don't wish to stay here with us, particulary because I simply have to punish you for your transgressions. [Over the garden wall]
sleuth	The Last of the Gentlemen Sleuths. [Knives out]
behest	I'm here at the behest of a client. [Knives out]
recede	May I just, um... Then I'll recede, but... [Knives out]
chasten	When you returned, you were chastened. [Knives out]
tether	It's unfair of me to keep you tethered to something that isn't yours to control. [Knives out]
disservice	No, I've done you a grave disservice. [Knives out]
slit	Throat slit? [Knives out]
mistruth	You have a regurgitative reaction to mistruthin'. [Knives out]
squibble	None of these weak alibis and domestic squibbles answer your question. [Knives out]
compel	It makes no damn sense. Compels me, though. [Knives out]
schmuck	What a schmuck. [Knives out]
nudnik	What a nudnik. [Knives out]
airtight	We need to make this so airtight that the average cop will entirely dismiss you as a suspect. [Knives out]
afoot	Something is afoot with this whole affair. [Knives out]
stroll	I determine the arc's path, stroll leisurely to its terminus and the truth falls at my feet. [Knives Out]
bail out	You're not getting bailed out, not this time. [Knives out]
heinous	There is at least one truly guilty part behind it all, guilty in the true sense of acting with malice and committing a heinous crime with selfish intent. [Knives out]
hooey	That is hooey. [Knives out]
scramble	A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. [Batman Begins]
thrive	Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding. [Batman Begins]
sniff around	No more favors. Someone is sniffing around. [Batman Begins]
attain	We've lost our souls to attain this peace. [The purge: Anarchy]
loose	Loose talk is noose talk. [Brazil]
noose	Loose talk is noose talk. [Brazil]
unwieldy	Nevertheless, Mr. Helpmann, there are those who mantain that the Ministry of Information has become too large and unwieldy. [Brazil]
knock for six	We're fielding all their strokes, running all of them out and pretty consistently knocking them for six. [Brazil]
shipshape	We'll have everything shipshape in a jiffy. [Brazil]
jiffy	We'll have everything shipshape in a jifffy. [Brazil]
up the spout	The electrics here are up the spout. [Brazil]
slum it	What are you doing here? Didn'd expect to see you slumming it in Records. [Brazil]
on the blink	Perhaps the machine's on the blink. [Brazil]
etching	Like a Rembrandt etching. [Brazil]
by the by	By the by, I saw the most wonderful idea for Christmas presents at the chemist's. [Brazil]
stickler	Sorry. I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. [Brazil]
dormant	The population census has got him down as dormanted. [Brazil]
excise	Security has got him down as excised. [Brazil]
nostril	Where did this come from, out of your nostril? [Brazil]
doddle	Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass. [Brazil]
haste	Trust in haste, regret at leisure. [Brazil]
whiz	I'm a bit of a whiz on that thing. [Brazil]
sod it	Sod it, it's broken. [Brazil]
elope	Go on, I'm not going to elope with her. [Brazil]
chap	Anyway, tidy it up, there's a good chap. [Brazil]
juggle	We'll bring Mr. Tuttle and interrogate him at the same voltage as Mr. Buttle. And juggle the books in electrical banking. [Brazil]
spill the beans	What, here? So that she can spill the beans inside the department? [Brazil]
unsavory	I want nothing unsavory. [Brazil]
willy	Put it on, big boy. I won't look at your willy. [Brazil]
bonkers	You probably think I'm bonkers, right? Mad, raving. [Brazil]
lorry	We should take the lorry and get away. [Brazil]
bribe	A bribe for official monkeys like you. [Brazil]
scalp	These helmets make your scalp itch. [Brazil]
stump	I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavilion. [Brazil]
usher	This New Millennium Edition ushers in a new era for The Feynman Lectures on Physics. [The Feynman Lectures on Physics]
startling	The consequences for the print version of this edition are not startling. [The Feynman Lectures on Physics]
glaze	The intervening years might have glazed their memories with a euphoric tint, but about 80 percent recall Feynman’s lectures as highlights of their college years. [The Feynman Lectures on Physics]
slick	You couldn’t learn to work the homework problems by attending the lectures. Feynman was too slick. [The Feynman Lectures]
creep	Given the high speed at which Feynman, Leighton and Sands worked, it was inevitable that many errors crept into the first edition. [The Feynman Lectures]
goof	I am not sure how I did it, but I goofed. And you goofed, too, for believing me. [The Feynman Lectures]
balk at	The publisher, Addison Wesley, fixed 80 errata, but balked at fixing more because of cost. [The Feynman Lectures]
verbatim	The lectures are, of course, not verbatim—they have been edited, sometimes extensively and sometimes less so. [The Feynman Lectures]
encompass	The most intelligent student was unable to completely encompass everything that was in the lectures. [The Feynman Lectures]
take up	At the end of the second year I had originally intended to go on, after the electricity and magnetism, by giving some more lectures on the properties of materials, but mainly to take up things like fundamental modes, … [The Feynman Lectures]
seldom	The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. [Edward Gibbon]
sole	Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth”. [The Feynman Lectures]
outline	Let us now proceed with our outline, or general map, of our understanding of science today. [The Feynman Lectures]
teeming	Now the drop of water extends about fifteen miles across, and if we look very closely at it we see a kind of teeming, something which no longer has a smooth appearance. [The Feynman Lectures]
jittery	This means that the gas exerts a jittery force which our coarse senses. [The Feynman Lectures]
coarse	This means that the gas exerts a jittery force which our coarse senses. [The Feynman Lectures]
shrink	Another thing we can see from Fig. 1-4 is why ice shrinks when it melts. [The Feynman Lectures]
hoist	No pulley? Don't bother. I don't have time to mess around with punks who don't hoist. Just in a real hoisting mood rn.
fan	Hence, if you wish to evaporate water turn on the fan! [The Feynman Lectures]
jostle	It is merely one helpless part of a jostling crowd of molecules, and in its aimless wanderings this particular chunk of matter happens to find itself in the nose. [The Feynman Lectures]
pucker	The six carbons which form a ring do not form a flat ring, but a kind of “puckered” ring. [The Feynman Lectures]
lo and behold	And lo and behold!, the chemists are almost always correct. [The Feynman Lectures]
lump	If instead of arranging the atoms [...] forming little lumps of complexity [...] we make an arrangement which is always different [...] how much more marvelously is it possible that this thing might behave? [The Feynman Lectures]
sheer	The sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do. [The Feynman Lectures]
stagger	The sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do. [The Feynman Lectures]
disembowel	I know our school. They would disenbowel me. [Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]
in a coon's age	It's an old address book I found in a coat I haven't worn in a coon's age. [Reservoir Dogs]
cooze	It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine. [Reservoir Dogs]
drone on	For the past 15 minutes now, you've been droning on about names. [Reservoir Dogs]
zone out	I must have zoned out during that part before. [Reservoir Dogs]
apiece	It should be about a buck apiece. [Reservoir Dogs]
cough up	All right, everybody cough up some green for the little lady. [Reservoir Dogs]
deem	I used to work minimum wage and I wasn't lucky enough to have a job society deemed tip-worthy. [Reservoir Dogs]
bust [sb]'s ass	These people bust their ass. This is a hard job. [Reservoir Dogs]
rambler	All right, ramblers, let's get ramblin'. [Reservoir Dogs]
jinx	I swear to God, I think I'm fuckin' jinxed. [Reservoir Dogs]
commode	Where's the commode in this dungeon? I gotta take a squirt. [Reservoir Dogs]
hip	We need you acting freaky like we need a fuckin' bag on our hip. [Reservoir Dogs]
butt cowboy	Eddie, if I was a butt cowboy, I wouldn't even throw you to the posse. [Reservoir Dogs]
bluff	You better stop bluffing, pal. [Reservoir Dogs]
stake out	Fuck you, man. You weren't there. The cops had that store staked out. [Reservoir Dogs]
phoney	We get there and I meet Joe and a guy named Mr White. It's a phoney name. My name's Mr Orange. [Reservoir Dogs]
rattle	He said I was a good thief, I didn't rattle, I was ready to make a move. [Reservoir Dogs]
bail	Take off, man. Just bail. Just get the fuck out of there! [Reservoir Dogs]
put up with	What a white bitch would put up with, a black bitch wouldn't put up with for a minute. [Reservoir Dogs]
truism	Ok, Mr Expert, if this is such a truism, why is it that every nigger I know treats his woman like a piece of shit? [Reservoir Dogs]
wetback	I come into the club one night, and there's Carlos —he's the bartender. He's a wetback. He's a friend of mine. [Reservoir Dogs]
giggle	You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? [Reservoir Dogs]
holler	I'm so goddamn mad hollering at you guys, I can't hardly talk. [Reservoir Dogs]
satchel	You're saying that Mr Blonde was gonna kill you, and then when we got back he was gonna kill us, take the satchel of diamonds and scram. [Reservoir Dogs]
crass	Nothing to crass, obviously. Just the right amount of crass, if you have it. [Avalanche]
lurid	A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. [Pulp Fiction]
bloke	Heard about this one bloke, he walks into a bank with a portable phone. [Pulp Fiction]
gook	We keep on, one of these gook fuckers gonna make us kill him. [Pulp Fiction]
busboy	Busboys. Some wetback gettin' paid $1.50 an hour really give a fuck you're stealin' from the owner? [Pulp Fiction]
stick up	See, I got the idea. The last liquor store we stuck up, remember? [Pulp Fiction]
puff away	You just can't walk into a restaurant, roll a joint and start puffin' away. [Pulp Fiction]
word around the campfire	Word 'round the campfire is it was on account of Marsellus Wallace's wife. [Pulp Fiction]
eat [sb/sth] out	I mean, is it as bad as eatin' her pussy out? [Pulp Fiction]
ballpark	I mean, is it as bad as eatin' her pussy out? No, but it's the same fuckin' ballpark. [Pulp Fiction]
tickle	Got my technique down and everything. I don't be ticklin' or nothin'. [Pulp Fiction]
wash down	You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down with? [Pulp Fiction]
retort	Oh, well, allow me to retort. [Pulp Fiction]
beset	The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. [Pulp Fiction]
corny	—Tell me. —It's corny. [Pulp Fiction]
gyp	What a gyp. [Pulp Fiction]
cootie	You can use my straw, I don't have cooties. [Pulp Fiction]
yak	Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? [Pulp Fiction]
scamp	When you little scamps get together, you're worse than a sewing circle. [Pulp Fiction]
sewing circle	When you little scamps get together, you're worse than a sewing circle. [Pulp Fiction]
O.D.	I got this chick, she's fuckin' O.D.in' on me! [Pulp Fiction]
pooh-bah	I'm not even joking with you! Do not be bringing some fucked-up pooh-bah to my house! [Pulp Fiction]
croak	If she croaks on me, I am a fucking grease spot! [Pulp Fiction]
grease spot	If she croaks on me, I am a fucking grease spot! [Pulp Fiction]
joypop	I don't go joy-poppin' with bubble-gummers! My friends can handle their highs! [Pulp Fiction]
mum's the word	Mum's the word? [Pulp Fiction]
hunk	I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. [Pulp Fiction]
frenzy	I could see the frenzy in his eyes give way to the realization of what he was doing. [Pulp Fiction]
kennel	We wanna know. Take him to the kennel, sic the dogs on his ass. [Pulp Fiction]
sic the dogs on	We wanna know. Take him to the kennel, sic the dogs on his ass. [Pulp Fiction]
scour for	I'm prepared to scour the Earth for that motherfucker. [Pulp Fiction]
straggler	A few stragglers aside. Oh, fuck, Scotty, that is good news. [Pulp Fiction]
fare	Now, if anybody asks you who your fare was tonight, what are you gonna say? [Pulp Fiction]
oafish	Pot bellies make a man look either oafish or like a gorilla. [Pulp Fiction]
smother	Ohh! I'd smother you! [Pulp Fiction]
nuisance	I don't want to be a burden or a nuisance. [Pulp Fiction]
gimp	Well, bring out the Gimp. [Pulp Fiction]
plier	I'm gonna call a couple of hard, pipe-hittin' niggers to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. [Pulp Fiction]
dreadful	You were gone so long, I started to think dreadful thoughts. [Pulp Fiction]
scoop up	Go in the back seat, scoop up all those little pieces of brain and skull. [Pulp Fiction]
upholstery	Wipe down the upholstery. [Pulp Fiction]
wipe down	Wipe down the upholstery. [Pulp Fiction]
spick-and-span	Now when it comes to upholstery it don't need to be spick-and-span. You don't need to eat off it. [Pulp Fiction]
rag	Strippin' off those bloody rags is absolutely necessary. [Pulp Fiction]
spur	How about you, Lash LaRue? Can you keep your spurs from jingling and jangling? [Pulp Fiction]
swine	I ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all. [Pulp Fiction]
bum	So you decided to be a bum. [Pulp Fiction]
in [sb]'s midst	Looks like we got a vigilante in our midst. [Pulp Fiction]
nimrod	Jules, you give that fuckin' nimrod 1500 dollars, and I'll shoot him on general principle. [Pulp Fiction]
be sweet on	I think she's sweet on you. [Natural born killers]
brassy	The stars are coming out. Look up in the brassy sky and there they are, like loony pocket change. [Natural born killers]
froth at the mouth	And you're driving the horses, whipping them, and they're spitting and frothing at the mouth. [Natural born killers]
peddle	You'll end up peddling your ass, you stupid bitch. [Natural born killers]
mow	You didn't mow the yard. [Natural born killers]
lawnmower	That piece-of-shit lawnmower is fucked! [Natural born killers]
sling hash	If it wasn't for me, you'd still be slinging hash and fucking your boss! [Natural born killers]
clog up	I don't want you to clog up your arteries and keel over at the table. [Natural born killers]
keel	I don't want you to clog up your arteries and keel over at the table. [Natural born killers]
vest in	Baby, by the power vested in me as God of my world I pronounce us husband and wife. [Natural born killers]
mayhem	To some, a beautiful stretch of the American landscape, but to Mickey and Mallory Knox, who are still at large, it is literally a candy lane of murder and mayhem. [Natural born killers]
ensuing	In the ensuing chase, a tragic murder occurred. [Natural born killers]
nitwit	You think that those nitwits in zombie-land remember anything? [Natural born killers]
eager	Next time don't be so fucking eager. [Natural born killers]
push comes to shove	Push comes to shove, we can snatch that donkey and ride out of here. [Natural born killers]
indictment	That is a harsh indictment. [Natural born killers]
drab	Once they were average citizens living drab, nothing-ever-happens lives. [Natural born killers]
squealer	Fucking squealer. [Natural born killers]
muster	One camera all you can muster? [Natural born killers]
shrink	Three inmates, five guards and one shrink. [Natural born killers]
fringe	Since then, I've had a strong opinion about the psychopathic fringe that thrives in this fast-food culture. [Natural born killers]
excoriate	If I don't, we'll be excoriated. [Natural born killers]
wheat	Except a corn or wheat falleth to the ground and die, it abideth alone. [Natural born killers]
abide	Except a corn or wheat falleth to the ground and die, it abideth alone. [Natural born killers]
rack	You must have some regret. Rack your brain. [Natural born killers]
unruly	Relax. Read my book. I met some unruly crocodiles but she's got a sweet streak for me. [Natural born killers]
hectic	It's a place I come to think when things get, you know, hectic. [Natural born killers]
glum	Don't look that glum. That was good. [Natural born killers]
ado	So without further ado: Mickey and Mallory. [Natural born killers]
macking	I will always remember all the great time with the dirty dozen and mackin' all the honeys. [The girl next door]
off the hook	I say this prom is gonna be off the hook. [The girl next door]
wicked	Diana, oh, great beautiful one, we make these offerings to you, so that we may undo the wicked spell which deprived you of the seed of your lover, of your virginal blood of your very life. [Four rooms]
alas	Goddess Diana, fail you, I will. I was to bring you fresh sperm from my Bill. I had him erect, and his semen would follow, but alas, I was hot, so hot that I swallowed. [Four rooms]
coven	Like a coven of witches? [Four rooms]
goop	If she doesn't get his goop in 10 minutes, I'm gonna go in there and get it myself. [Four rooms]
jism	Goddess Diana, I offer to you the jism of the one I wooed for you, so you may live and know such bliss, as getting laid by a guy like this. [Four rooms]
woo	Goddess Diana, I offer to you the jism of the one I wooed for you, so you may live and know such bliss, as getting laid by a guy like this. [Four rooms]
so mote it be	So mote it be. [Four rooms]
beleaguer	Let's not beleaguer the fact that you have no sense of timing. [Four rooms]
beau	I couldn't think of a better time for you to introduce me to your beau than on New Year's Eve. [Four rooms]
deface	Defacing money.
stymie
arsehole
overstatement
shag
wreck
thrush
pose a question
ghastly
tangle
tenner
stock cube
utterly
thrust
write down
blast
flaunt
cursory
con
loo
knickers
wrap up
diddle
wank
top to toe
delve
hassle
hand to
chap
plaits
PMT
wee
purse strings
venue
fend for
icky
cling to
arouse
perk
meager
sprout up
misdeed
podunk
off the sauce
needy
commute
narrow down
fortnight
fly over
prudish
ripple
parish
fete
stir
excel
miscarriage
ectopic
clog up
wonky
boast
tat
tantamount
fancy
toot
blow hot and cold
fringe
take its toll
deflect from
pitiful
pawing
curchgoer
dubious
posh
appallingly
off the wagon
mingle	Oh, God, I have to announce. Okay, mingle. [Fleabag]
bollocks
longing
be arsed
snog
nip
hast
put out the feelers
pinny
shebang
smuggle out
wondrous	I feel an obligation to make sure you see the wondrous sights of Indiana while you can. [All the bright places]
maudlin	Teen charm can't lift maudlin Netflix drama.
plush	Lakeview is plush. [Upload]
britches	I'm so sorry about your death. And so pleased about your britches. [Upload]
pan out	Well, that didn't exactly pan out. [Upload]
stiffen	Hmm, you suddenly stiffened. [Upload]
mayhap
foresee
sap
truce
belittle
sprinkle	Wow, chocolate with sprinkles, my favorite. [Knock knock]
robe	We have some extra robes. I’ll, uh, go get them. [Knock knock]
rip	Come on, any guy that ripped is more into his own ass than yours. [Knock knock]
extent	That's about the extent of my Spanish anyway. [Knock knock]
statutory	Statutory rape, Evan. [Knock, knock]
cockblock	Supposedly, the real Arnold cockblocked him for years when they lived together on a nudist commune in 1973. [Upload]
adorbs	Aw, that's adorbs. [Upload]
scone	Try happy memory, maybe? Like good scone. [Upload]
goss	I have so much hot goss, by the way. [Upload]
calf	Strong calves are magnets for rich husbands. [Upload]
a roll in the hay	I could give Sam a roll in the hay. [Upload]
lubber	We'll never see that lubber again. [SpongeBob SquarePants]
aye aye	Aye aye, captain! [SpongeBob SquarePants]
sorry	Take that, you sorry old clam! Y'all need to learn some manners! You're about as ugly as homemade soup. [SpongeBob SquarePants]
heck	Heck no. I need it to breathe! I gotta have my air. [SpongeBob SquarePants]
put on airs	Do you mean she puts on airs? [SpongeBob SquarePants]
the bee's knees	Ain't that just the bee's knees? [SpongeBob SquarePants]
critter	You know, you're the first sea critter to ever visit. [SpongeBob SquarePants]
quitter	Water is for quitters. [SpongeBob SquarePants]
sum up	I think that pretty much sums it up. [The Office]
downsize	Downsizing is a bitch. [The Office]
keep a lid on	So do you think we could keep a lid on this for now? [The Office]
garner	I think I'm a role model here. I think I garner people's respect. [The Office]
be on to someoen	Oh, well, yeah, he's on to me. [The Office]
beat to the punch	I never actually talked to corporate about it. They kind of beat me to the punch. Uh, little bastards. [The Office]
cocky	I know, I'm getting cocky, right? [The Office]
candidly	Uh, Michael, can I talk to you candidly? [The Office]
cop a squat	Here we go. Take a seat. Cop a squat. [The Office]
stir the pot	No, come on. Stir the pot! Stir the melting pot, Pam! [The Office]
cub	My darling cub. [Jojo Rabbit]
stalemate	—So, it's a Mexican stalemate. —It's just a normal stalemate. [Jojo Rabbit]
oaf	What on Earth are those oafs up to? [Jojo Rabbit]
Goldilocks	And, of course, we are indeed interested in problems of crime and anti-party sentiment, but we still have one greater concern, that of the "Goldilockses". [Jojo Rabbit]
rye
imbibe
edify

acquaintance

He's not really a friend. He's more like an acquaintance.

baffled

bogus

bribe

bushwhack

crawl back

dotty

far-fetched

gig

lovelorn

gullible

measly

numb

petty

quibble

relentless

spry

stake

Our very lives can be at stake.

swine

wallow

harbormaster

shipyard

aft

I can't tell the aft from the stern.

stern

I can't tell the aft from the stern.

lapdog

You're such a little lapdog.

pop

Why can't they find her pops, man?

shudder

I shudder to think.

thaw out

That's no big deal, Sid. You'll thaw out.

wallow

I can't wallow in the grief process forever.

woozy

I'm feeling a little woozy here.

peer

Peer pressure. I'm far too sensitive.

forfeiture

Any systematised transmission indicating intelligent origin must be investigated on penalty of total forfeiture of shares.

hull

Is the hull breached?

hatch

An organism. Open the hatch.

hasty

Let's not be too hasty.

collate

As I said, I'm still collating.

jeopardize

Maybe I've jeopardised the rest of us, but it was a risk I was willing to take.

smother

I remember some horrible dream about smothering.

stiff

In general, dolls branded for girls are stiff—they can move their arms and legs at best, and handheld accessories look uncanny in their ever rigid hands.

albeit

These famous dollhouses, albeit luxurious and detailed, had boring to death structures.

akin

At that moment, the big doll hides in the closet and the small one comes out of a shelf, implying a transformation akin to Alice’s.

prowess

Now that Polly is tiny, she can “go there” to show off her skating prowess!

plaid

I'm dreaming of a plaid Christmas, completely unlike the ones I used to know.

scavenger

ravage

shatter

grapple

They grapple each other in a savage melee.

pervade

especially as the wave of on-the-nose systemic metaphors keeps pervading the medium’s fetishes

debunk

It is hard, however, to draw the line in regard to the so-called political games since they openly reproduce such systems to debunk them afterwards.

misbegotten

And well, this isn’t a misbegotten premise in and of itself, but leads to some serious problems when it comes to boy geniuses.

savvy

And as much as the aforementioned notions of savvy design are shaped by these technocrats (...)

thoroughly

In fact, the game as a whole, as you may have already guessed, is thoroughly embroiled in the roots of late capitalism.

embroil

In fact, the game as a whole, as you may have already guessed, is thoroughly embroiled in the roots of late capitalism.

inasmuch

Videogame’s political consciousness appears to be neglected in general, with notable exceptions proving the rule inasmuch as they’re forced to grow on the outskirts.

chatterbox

Boy, that guy was a real chatterbox, wasn't he?

frantic

Because the pace is so frantic, every choice you make has to matter a lot.

weasel

The guy's a weasel.

laid-back

Oh, so your laid-back, natural lifestyle is one of your secrets to your appeal...

bellhop

Oh, so you can't go to Vegas, but she can fuck a bellhop on a Carnival Curise Line?

gross out

Yeah, I do believe that because she's grossed out by semen.

frown upon

It's not illegal, it's frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane.

quaint

No, it's so quaint.

denial

Wow. He's in denial.

rack

Ma'am, in the leopard dress, you have an amazing rack.

fudge up

I'm sorry, I fudged up, guys.

hath

Consider God's handwork: who can straighten what He hath made crooked?

crooked

Consider God's handwork: who can straighten what He hath made crooked?

tamper

I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother Nature wants us to.

second to none

A genetic quotient second to none.

burden

Your child doesn't need any additional burdens.

guise

In the guise of Jerome Morrow, I have risen quickly through the ranks of Gattaca.

ploy

A ploy to get me cooking again.

overweening

Some sort of overweening pride, I suppose.

fatten up

Fatten that baby up.

bear up

He simply bears up, and he does it because he's a man.

hunch

Your hunch was right.

gambit

Walt says he's not going anywhere so that's a really brilliant gambit on my part.

dreck

As long as it's that ridiculous Chili P or some other dreck but don't even think abour using my formula.

ram

I say we just ram him.

nab

They nab me... I make a deal to give up the great Heisenberg and his million-dollar drug ring.

hoax

Arriving at the hospital, I learned the emergency call was a hoax.

gander

Well, take a gander. Prices are negotiable.

wang

Stop a bullet like a soft wang against a Quaker girl. Ain't getting through.

bone

Told you. Dude's totally boning us.

spillage

Well, what about spillage?

swatter

This is a swatter.

shuttle

We're making meth here, all right? Not space shuttles.

turd

Did you know that there's an acceptable level of rat turds that get into candy bars?

sling

They goy Tomás slinging.

hearsay

That's hearsay. Do you have any proof?

yawp

A yawp is yell.

doff

Well, I doff my proverbial cap to you, sir.

gulf

That last 3 percent... it may not sound like a lot, but it is. It's a tremendous gulf.

stud

Dad, you're such a stud. How much did you win exactly?

jibe

That's pretty rare these days but it does jibe with the blue stuff I've been tracking.

mitt

No, no, no. You keep your mitts off me. I'm good. I'm good.

bona fide

Now, this Gale Boetticher is a bona fide chemistry genius.

wazoo

I mean, he's got degrees up the wazoo, right?

snot-nose

I'm talking to some snot-nose lawyer who's asking me for my badge number.

napkin

That napkin.

dunce

These guys usually get a dunce to pull the trigger, right?

fodder

This is all good fodder for you to request a sit-down with Gus so you can discuss what you would say for questioning.

maverick

The guy has gone totally maverick. He's Miss Daisy with binoculars.

scram

Guys, go, go, go. Scram.

rile up

Yeah, speaking of things that tend to rile you up... the police, they may call.

shrug off

I will not have my children living in a house where dealing drugs and hurting people and killing people is shrugged off as "shit happens".

bide

Hold on, bide my time and wait.

sloppy

Even by cop standards, this is sloppy.

uptight

Look, she didn't seem crazy to me, you know? She just seem, like, uptight.

mope around

Hey, man, look at the sad sack I found moping around the lobby.

fester

I'm glad you're on it. That's not something you wanna let fester.

suss out

I say we keep listening, suss out how much time we have.

skid row

We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.

scrounge

We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.

skell

We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.

smurf

We hit skid row, the Crystal Palace, all the halfway houses, scrounge up about a dozen skells, put them to work smurfing cold pills.

piddling

Well, maybe we better talk about it a little more because what it sounds like you're telling me, Mike, is that from now on we have no choice but to do this piddling pseudo cook so that we can pay back your guys.

quandary

Walter, I've got a bit of a quandary here.

quiver

The poor man can't spend a few minutes with his granddaughter without you guys quivering in the bushes and peeping through your binoculars.

ripcord

Whatever you got planned, you best pull the ripcord while you still have a chance.

tepid

Yours is just some tepid off-brand, generic cola.

squander

And what, you wanna squander that potential?

brass tacks

Brass tacks. Okay, my job is to advise and my advice is, come on, already.

scabby

To whom? A bunch of scabby Arizona tweakers?

rake in

But apparently Jesse is raking it in.

crank up

Maybe I can get him cranked up enough that he starts yapping.

yap

Maybe I can get him cranked up enough that he starts yapping.

tick away

So I'm looking all around, because I know we're not done but the gallons are slowly ticking away.

reel

I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family.

poise

I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family.

rinse off

I could have rinsed off at the station.

brimming with

Just brimming with advice.

ruthless

Hey, Walt's ruthless.

skimp

Don't skimp on family, that's what I always say.

barge in

I'm sorry to just barge in on you like this but I was hoping that I could have a moment to talk with you.

simmer down

Whoa, simmer down there, sparky.

galore

Last week’s episode was a Leone movie, I saw someone remark on Twitter—outsized drama, heightened style, breathless suspense, posturing galore

soothe

Maybe that soothes some troubled waters.

nil

On the TV front, the reception's pretty much nil.

flue

The flue can be tricky.

stove

Know how to work the stove?

wheedle

Later he wheedles Lydia into accepting this as a tolerable level of risk, as opposed to a more permanent solution, which she would no doubt prefer.

have a gander

Take a look at him. Have a gander.

bewildering

The first thing we see in that pilot is a bewildering flash-forward to a moment of absurd crisis.

henpecked

How, we wonder as the show settles into its premise-setting after the cold open, are we going to get from Walter White, henpecked husband, humiliated car wash employee, and underpaid teacher, to a pantless, gas-masked figure waving a gun on a desert road?

irretrievably

That quotation also functions as a switch that sets in motion, irretrievably, the gears that will bring us to these final moments.

plea

And when he finally confronts Uncle Jack’s gang at their compound, his sickly appearance and pathetic plea to sell them a new blue-meth process convince them that he’s no threat.

set out

When I set out for Lyonnesse,/A hundred miles away,/The rime was on the spray,/And starlight lit my lonesomeness [Thomas Hardy]

rime

When I set out for Lyonnesse,/A hundred miles away,/The rime was on the spray,/And starlight lit my lonesomeness [Thomas Hardy]

lonesomeness

When I set out for Lyonnesse,/A hundred miles away,/The rime was on the spray,/And starlight lit my lonesomeness [Thomas Hardy]

bechance

What would bechance at Lyonnesse/While I should sojourn there/No prophet durst declare,/Nor did the wisest wizard guess [Thomas Hardy]

sojourn

What would bechance at Lyonnesse/While I should sojourn there/No prophet durst declare,/Nor did the wisest wizard guess [Thomas Hardy]

durst

What would bechance at Lyonnesse/While I should sojourn there/No prophet durst declare,/Nor did the wisest wizard guess [Thomas Hardy]

surmise

When I returned from Lyonnesse/With magic in my eyes,/All marked with mute surmise/My radiance rare and fathomless [Thomas Hardy]

fathomless

When I returned from Lyonnesse/With magic in my eyes,/All marked with mute surmise/My radiance rare and fathomless [Thomas Hardy]

strew with

She wears too much the guise she wore/Before our lutes were strewn/With years-deep dust, and names we read/On a white stone were hewn. [Thomas Hardy]

hew

She wears too much the guise she wore/Before our lutes were strewn/With years-deep dust, and names we read/On a white stone were hewn. [Thomas Hardy]

bruiser

A pair of barons, referred to internally by id Software as the "bruiser brothers," star as the bosses at the end of Knee-Deep in the Dead, the first episode of Doom.

spruce

Very spruce. [28 days later]

shredded

Very shredded. [28 days later]

kettle

Put the kettle on. [28 days later]

cope

Hannah is what Frank says she is. Tough, strong, and she'll cope just like I'll cope. [28 days later]

soppy

Don't just stand there, you soppy cunt! Get after them! [28 days later]

grind

I grind the horrid edelwood trees into oil. [Over the garden wall]

horrid

I grind the horrid edelwood trees into oil. [Over the garden wall]

burden

This is my lot in life. This is my burden. [Over the garden wall]

mournful

The beast haunts this woods, ever singing his mournful melody. [Over the garden wall]

give the runaround

That frog's giving me the runaround. [Over the garden wall]

mollify

The beast cannot be mollified like some farmer's pet! [Over the garden wall]

husking bee

Hard Times at the Huskin' Bee. [Over the garden wall]

ditch

How about you and I ditch your brother? [Over the garden wall]

obnoxious

Hey, not to be obnoxious, but an abandoned ghost town doesn't seem like it's gonna be that useful getting you guys home. [Over the garden wall]

don

Oh, pardon me there. Say, you folks ought to don your vegetables and celebrate the harvest with us. [Over the garden wall]

trample

Now let me get this straight... You come to our town, you trample our crops, you interrupt our private engagement, and now you want to leave? [Over the garden wall]

crop

Now let me get this straight... You come to our town, you trample our crops, you interrupt our private engagement, and now you want to leave? [Over the garden wall]

sadden

Children, it saddens me that you don't wish to stay here with us, particulary because I simply have to punish you for your transgressions. [Over the garden wall]

sleuth

The Last of the Gentlemen Sleuths. [Knives out]

behest

I'm here at the behest of a client. [Knives out]

recede

May I just, um... Then I'll recede, but... [Knives out]

chasten

When you returned, you were chastened. [Knives out]

tether

It's unfair of me to keep you tethered to something that isn't yours to control. [Knives out]

disservice

No, I've done you a grave disservice. [Knives out]

slit

Throat slit? [Knives out]

mistruth

You have a regurgitative reaction to mistruthin'. [Knives out]

squibble

None of these weak alibis and domestic squibbles answer your question. [Knives out]

compel

It makes no damn sense. Compels me, though. [Knives out]

schmuck

What a schmuck. [Knives out]

nudnik

What a nudnik. [Knives out]

airtight

We need to make this so airtight that the average cop will entirely dismiss you as a suspect. [Knives out]

afoot

Something is afoot with this whole affair. [Knives out]

stroll

I determine the arc's path, stroll leisurely to its terminus and the truth falls at my feet. [Knives Out]

bail out

You're not getting bailed out, not this time. [Knives out]

heinous

There is at least one truly guilty part behind it all, guilty in the true sense of acting with malice and committing a heinous crime with selfish intent. [Knives out]

hooey

That is hooey. [Knives out]

scramble

A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. [Batman Begins]

thrive

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding. [Batman Begins]

sniff around

No more favors. Someone is sniffing around. [Batman Begins]

attain

We've lost our souls to attain this peace. [The purge: Anarchy]

loose

Loose talk is noose talk. [Brazil]

noose

Loose talk is noose talk. [Brazil]

unwieldy

Nevertheless, Mr. Helpmann, there are those who mantain that the Ministry of Information has become too large and unwieldy. [Brazil]

knock for six

We're fielding all their strokes, running all of them out and pretty consistently knocking them for six. [Brazil]

shipshape

We'll have everything shipshape in a jiffy. [Brazil]

jiffy

We'll have everything shipshape in a jifffy. [Brazil]

up the spout

The electrics here are up the spout. [Brazil]

slum it

What are you doing here? Didn'd expect to see you slumming it in Records. [Brazil]

on the blink

Perhaps the machine's on the blink. [Brazil]

etching

Like a Rembrandt etching. [Brazil]

by the by

By the by, I saw the most wonderful idea for Christmas presents at the chemist's. [Brazil]

stickler

Sorry. I'm a bit of a stickler for paperwork. [Brazil]

dormant

The population census has got him down as dormanted. [Brazil]

excise

Security has got him down as excised. [Brazil]

nostril

Where did this come from, out of your nostril? [Brazil]

doddle

Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass. [Brazil]

haste

Trust in haste, regret at leisure. [Brazil]

whiz

I'm a bit of a whiz on that thing. [Brazil]

sod it

Sod it, it's broken. [Brazil]

elope

Go on, I'm not going to elope with her. [Brazil]

chap

Anyway, tidy it up, there's a good chap. [Brazil]

juggle

We'll bring Mr. Tuttle and interrogate him at the same voltage as Mr. Buttle. And juggle the books in electrical banking. [Brazil]

spill the beans

What, here? So that she can spill the beans inside the department? [Brazil]

unsavory

I want nothing unsavory. [Brazil]

willy

Put it on, big boy. I won't look at your willy. [Brazil]

bonkers

You probably think I'm bonkers, right? Mad, raving. [Brazil]

lorry

We should take the lorry and get away. [Brazil]

bribe

A bribe for official monkeys like you. [Brazil]

scalp

These helmets make your scalp itch. [Brazil]

stump

I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavilion. [Brazil]

usher

This New Millennium Edition ushers in a new era for The Feynman Lectures on Physics. [The Feynman Lectures on Physics]

startling

The consequences for the print version of this edition are not startling. [The Feynman Lectures on Physics]

glaze

The intervening years might have glazed their memories with a euphoric tint, but about 80 percent recall Feynman’s lectures as highlights of their college years. [The Feynman Lectures on Physics]

slick

You couldn’t learn to work the homework problems by attending the lectures. Feynman was too slick. [The Feynman Lectures]

creep

Given the high speed at which Feynman, Leighton and Sands worked, it was inevitable that many errors crept into the first edition. [The Feynman Lectures]

goof

I am not sure how I did it, but I goofed. And you goofed, too, for believing me. [The Feynman Lectures]

balk at

The publisher, Addison Wesley, fixed 80 errata, but balked at fixing more because of cost. [The Feynman Lectures]

verbatim

The lectures are, of course, not verbatim—they have been edited, sometimes extensively and sometimes less so. [The Feynman Lectures]

encompass

The most intelligent student was unable to completely encompass everything that was in the lectures. [The Feynman Lectures]

take up

At the end of the second year I had originally intended to go on, after the electricity and magnetism, by giving some more lectures on the properties of materials, but mainly to take up things like fundamental modes, … [The Feynman Lectures]

seldom

The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. [Edward Gibbon]

sole

Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth”. [The Feynman Lectures]

outline

Let us now proceed with our outline, or general map, of our understanding of science today. [The Feynman Lectures]

teeming

Now the drop of water extends about fifteen miles across, and if we look very closely at it we see a kind of teeming, something which no longer has a smooth appearance. [The Feynman Lectures]

jittery

This means that the gas exerts a jittery force which our coarse senses. [The Feynman Lectures]

coarse

This means that the gas exerts a jittery force which our coarse senses. [The Feynman Lectures]

shrink

Another thing we can see from Fig. 1-4 is why ice shrinks when it melts. [The Feynman Lectures]

hoist

No pulley? Don't bother. I don't have time to mess around with punks who don't hoist. Just in a real hoisting mood rn.

fan

Hence, if you wish to evaporate water turn on the fan! [The Feynman Lectures]

jostle

It is merely one helpless part of a jostling crowd of molecules, and in its aimless wanderings this particular chunk of matter happens to find itself in the nose. [The Feynman Lectures]

pucker

The six carbons which form a ring do not form a flat ring, but a kind of “puckered” ring. [The Feynman Lectures]

lo and behold

And lo and behold!, the chemists are almost always correct. [The Feynman Lectures]

lump

If instead of arranging the atoms [...] forming little lumps of complexity [...] we make an arrangement which is always different [...] how much more marvelously is it possible that this thing might behave? [The Feynman Lectures]

sheer

The sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do. [The Feynman Lectures]

stagger

The sheer complexity of it staggers the imagination as to what it can do. [The Feynman Lectures]

disembowel

I know our school. They would disenbowel me. [Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark]

in a coon's age

It's an old address book I found in a coat I haven't worn in a coon's age. [Reservoir Dogs]

cooze

It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine. [Reservoir Dogs]

drone on

For the past 15 minutes now, you've been droning on about names. [Reservoir Dogs]

zone out

I must have zoned out during that part before. [Reservoir Dogs]

apiece

It should be about a buck apiece. [Reservoir Dogs]

cough up

All right, everybody cough up some green for the little lady. [Reservoir Dogs]

deem

I used to work minimum wage and I wasn't lucky enough to have a job society deemed tip-worthy. [Reservoir Dogs]

bust [sb]'s ass

These people bust their ass. This is a hard job. [Reservoir Dogs]

rambler

All right, ramblers, let's get ramblin'. [Reservoir Dogs]

jinx

I swear to God, I think I'm fuckin' jinxed. [Reservoir Dogs]

commode

Where's the commode in this dungeon? I gotta take a squirt. [Reservoir Dogs]

hip

We need you acting freaky like we need a fuckin' bag on our hip. [Reservoir Dogs]

butt cowboy

Eddie, if I was a butt cowboy, I wouldn't even throw you to the posse. [Reservoir Dogs]

bluff

You better stop bluffing, pal. [Reservoir Dogs]

stake out

Fuck you, man. You weren't there. The cops had that store staked out. [Reservoir Dogs]

phoney

We get there and I meet Joe and a guy named Mr White. It's a phoney name. My name's Mr Orange. [Reservoir Dogs]

rattle

He said I was a good thief, I didn't rattle, I was ready to make a move. [Reservoir Dogs]

bail

Take off, man. Just bail. Just get the fuck out of there! [Reservoir Dogs]

put up with

What a white bitch would put up with, a black bitch wouldn't put up with for a minute. [Reservoir Dogs]

truism

Ok, Mr Expert, if this is such a truism, why is it that every nigger I know treats his woman like a piece of shit? [Reservoir Dogs]

wetback

I come into the club one night, and there's Carlos —he's the bartender. He's a wetback. He's a friend of mine. [Reservoir Dogs]

giggle

You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? [Reservoir Dogs]

holler

I'm so goddamn mad hollering at you guys, I can't hardly talk. [Reservoir Dogs]

satchel

You're saying that Mr Blonde was gonna kill you, and then when we got back he was gonna kill us, take the satchel of diamonds and scram. [Reservoir Dogs]

crass

Nothing to crass, obviously. Just the right amount of crass, if you have it. [Avalanche]

lurid

A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. [Pulp Fiction]

bloke

Heard about this one bloke, he walks into a bank with a portable phone. [Pulp Fiction]

gook

We keep on, one of these gook fuckers gonna make us kill him. [Pulp Fiction]

busboy

Busboys. Some wetback gettin' paid $1.50 an hour really give a fuck you're stealin' from the owner? [Pulp Fiction]

stick up

See, I got the idea. The last liquor store we stuck up, remember? [Pulp Fiction]

puff away

You just can't walk into a restaurant, roll a joint and start puffin' away. [Pulp Fiction]

word around the campfire

Word 'round the campfire is it was on account of Marsellus Wallace's wife. [Pulp Fiction]

eat [sb/sth] out

I mean, is it as bad as eatin' her pussy out? [Pulp Fiction]

ballpark

I mean, is it as bad as eatin' her pussy out? No, but it's the same fuckin' ballpark. [Pulp Fiction]

tickle

Got my technique down and everything. I don't be ticklin' or nothin'. [Pulp Fiction]

wash down

You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down with? [Pulp Fiction]

retort

Oh, well, allow me to retort. [Pulp Fiction]

beset

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. [Pulp Fiction]

corny

—Tell me. —It's corny. [Pulp Fiction]

gyp

What a gyp. [Pulp Fiction]

cootie

You can use my straw, I don't have cooties. [Pulp Fiction]

yak

Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? [Pulp Fiction]

scamp

When you little scamps get together, you're worse than a sewing circle. [Pulp Fiction]

sewing circle

When you little scamps get together, you're worse than a sewing circle. [Pulp Fiction]

O.D.

I got this chick, she's fuckin' O.D.in' on me! [Pulp Fiction]

pooh-bah

I'm not even joking with you! Do not be bringing some fucked-up pooh-bah to my house! [Pulp Fiction]

croak

If she croaks on me, I am a fucking grease spot! [Pulp Fiction]

grease spot

If she croaks on me, I am a fucking grease spot! [Pulp Fiction]

joypop

I don't go joy-poppin' with bubble-gummers! My friends can handle their highs! [Pulp Fiction]

mum's the word

Mum's the word? [Pulp Fiction]

hunk

I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. [Pulp Fiction]

frenzy

I could see the frenzy in his eyes give way to the realization of what he was doing. [Pulp Fiction]

kennel

We wanna know. Take him to the kennel, sic the dogs on his ass. [Pulp Fiction]

sic the dogs on

We wanna know. Take him to the kennel, sic the dogs on his ass. [Pulp Fiction]

scour for

I'm prepared to scour the Earth for that motherfucker. [Pulp Fiction]

straggler

A few stragglers aside. Oh, fuck, Scotty, that is good news. [Pulp Fiction]

fare

Now, if anybody asks you who your fare was tonight, what are you gonna say? [Pulp Fiction]

oafish

Pot bellies make a man look either oafish or like a gorilla. [Pulp Fiction]

smother

Ohh! I'd smother you! [Pulp Fiction]

nuisance

I don't want to be a burden or a nuisance. [Pulp Fiction]

gimp

Well, bring out the Gimp. [Pulp Fiction]

plier

I'm gonna call a couple of hard, pipe-hittin' niggers to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. [Pulp Fiction]

dreadful

You were gone so long, I started to think dreadful thoughts. [Pulp Fiction]

scoop up

Go in the back seat, scoop up all those little pieces of brain and skull. [Pulp Fiction]

upholstery

Wipe down the upholstery. [Pulp Fiction]

wipe down

Wipe down the upholstery. [Pulp Fiction]

spick-and-span

Now when it comes to upholstery it don't need to be spick-and-span. You don't need to eat off it. [Pulp Fiction]

rag

Strippin' off those bloody rags is absolutely necessary. [Pulp Fiction]

spur

How about you, Lash LaRue? Can you keep your spurs from jingling and jangling? [Pulp Fiction]

swine

I ain't Jewish. I just don't dig on swine, that's all. [Pulp Fiction]

bum

So you decided to be a bum. [Pulp Fiction]

in [sb]'s midst

Looks like we got a vigilante in our midst. [Pulp Fiction]

nimrod

Jules, you give that fuckin' nimrod 1500 dollars, and I'll shoot him on general principle. [Pulp Fiction]

be sweet on

I think she's sweet on you. [Natural born killers]

brassy

The stars are coming out. Look up in the brassy sky and there they are, like loony pocket change. [Natural born killers]

froth at the mouth

And you're driving the horses, whipping them, and they're spitting and frothing at the mouth. [Natural born killers]

peddle

You'll end up peddling your ass, you stupid bitch. [Natural born killers]

mow

You didn't mow the yard. [Natural born killers]

lawnmower

That piece-of-shit lawnmower is fucked! [Natural born killers]

sling hash

If it wasn't for me, you'd still be slinging hash and fucking your boss! [Natural born killers]

clog up

I don't want you to clog up your arteries and keel over at the table. [Natural born killers]

keel

I don't want you to clog up your arteries and keel over at the table. [Natural born killers]

vest in

Baby, by the power vested in me as God of my world I pronounce us husband and wife. [Natural born killers]

mayhem

To some, a beautiful stretch of the American landscape, but to Mickey and Mallory Knox, who are still at large, it is literally a candy lane of murder and mayhem. [Natural born killers]

ensuing

In the ensuing chase, a tragic murder occurred. [Natural born killers]

nitwit

You think that those nitwits in zombie-land remember anything? [Natural born killers]

eager

Next time don't be so fucking eager. [Natural born killers]

push comes to shove

Push comes to shove, we can snatch that donkey and ride out of here. [Natural born killers]

indictment

That is a harsh indictment. [Natural born killers]

drab

Once they were average citizens living drab, nothing-ever-happens lives. [Natural born killers]

squealer

Fucking squealer. [Natural born killers]

muster

One camera all you can muster? [Natural born killers]

shrink

Three inmates, five guards and one shrink. [Natural born killers]

fringe

Since then, I've had a strong opinion about the psychopathic fringe that thrives in this fast-food culture. [Natural born killers]

excoriate

If I don't, we'll be excoriated. [Natural born killers]

wheat

Except a corn or wheat falleth to the ground and die, it abideth alone. [Natural born killers]

abide

Except a corn or wheat falleth to the ground and die, it abideth alone. [Natural born killers]

rack

You must have some regret. Rack your brain. [Natural born killers]

unruly

Relax. Read my book. I met some unruly crocodiles but she's got a sweet streak for me. [Natural born killers]

hectic

It's a place I come to think when things get, you know, hectic. [Natural born killers]

glum

Don't look that glum. That was good. [Natural born killers]

ado

So without further ado: Mickey and Mallory. [Natural born killers]

macking

I will always remember all the great time with the dirty dozen and mackin' all the honeys. [The girl next door]

off the hook

I say this prom is gonna be off the hook. [The girl next door]

wicked

Diana, oh, great beautiful one, we make these offerings to you, so that we may undo the wicked spell which deprived you of the seed of your lover, of your virginal blood of your very life. [Four rooms]

alas

Goddess Diana, fail you, I will. I was to bring you fresh sperm from my Bill. I had him erect, and his semen would follow, but alas, I was hot, so hot that I swallowed. [Four rooms]

coven

Like a coven of witches? [Four rooms]

goop

If she doesn't get his goop in 10 minutes, I'm gonna go in there and get it myself. [Four rooms]

jism

Goddess Diana, I offer to you the jism of the one I wooed for you, so you may live and know such bliss, as getting laid by a guy like this. [Four rooms]

woo

Goddess Diana, I offer to you the jism of the one I wooed for you, so you may live and know such bliss, as getting laid by a guy like this. [Four rooms]

so mote it be

So mote it be. [Four rooms]

beleaguer

Let's not beleaguer the fact that you have no sense of timing. [Four rooms]

beau

I couldn't think of a better time for you to introduce me to your beau than on New Year's Eve. [Four rooms]

deface

Defacing money.

stymie

arsehole

overstatement

shag

wreck

thrush

pose a question

ghastly

tangle

tenner

stock cube

utterly

thrust

write down

blast

flaunt

cursory

con

loo

knickers

wrap up

diddle

wank

top to toe

delve

hassle

hand to

chap

plaits

PMT

wee

purse strings

venue

fend for

icky

cling to

arouse

perk

meager

sprout up

misdeed

podunk

off the sauce

needy

commute

narrow down

fortnight

fly over

prudish

ripple

parish

fete

stir

excel

miscarriage

ectopic

clog up

wonky

boast

tat

tantamount

fancy

toot

blow hot and cold

fringe

take its toll

deflect from

pitiful

pawing

curchgoer

dubious

posh

appallingly

off the wagon

mingle

Oh, God, I have to announce. Okay, mingle. [Fleabag]

bollocks

longing

be arsed

snog

nip

hast

put out the feelers

pinny

shebang

smuggle out

wondrous

I feel an obligation to make sure you see the wondrous sights of Indiana while you can. [All the bright places]

maudlin

Teen charm can't lift maudlin Netflix drama.

plush

Lakeview is plush. [Upload]

britches

I'm so sorry about your death. And so pleased about your britches. [Upload]

pan out

Well, that didn't exactly pan out. [Upload]

stiffen

Hmm, you suddenly stiffened. [Upload]

mayhap

foresee

sap

truce

belittle

sprinkle

Wow, chocolate with sprinkles, my favorite. [Knock knock]

robe

We have some extra robes. I’ll, uh, go get them. [Knock knock]

rip

Come on, any guy that ripped is more into his own ass than yours. [Knock knock]

extent

That's about the extent of my Spanish anyway. [Knock knock]

statutory

Statutory rape, Evan. [Knock, knock]

cockblock

Supposedly, the real Arnold cockblocked him for years when they lived together on a nudist commune in 1973. [Upload]

adorbs

Aw, that's adorbs. [Upload]

scone

Try happy memory, maybe? Like good scone. [Upload]

goss

I have so much hot goss, by the way. [Upload]

calf

Strong calves are magnets for rich husbands. [Upload]

a roll in the hay

I could give Sam a roll in the hay. [Upload]

lubber

We'll never see that lubber again. [SpongeBob SquarePants]

aye aye

Aye aye, captain! [SpongeBob SquarePants]

sorry

Take that, you sorry old clam! Y'all need to learn some manners! You're about as ugly as homemade soup. [SpongeBob SquarePants]

heck

Heck no. I need it to breathe! I gotta have my air. [SpongeBob SquarePants]

put on airs

Do you mean she puts on airs? [SpongeBob SquarePants]

the bee's knees

Ain't that just the bee's knees? [SpongeBob SquarePants]

critter

You know, you're the first sea critter to ever visit. [SpongeBob SquarePants]

quitter

Water is for quitters. [SpongeBob SquarePants]

sum up

I think that pretty much sums it up. [The Office]

downsize

Downsizing is a bitch. [The Office]

keep a lid on

So do you think we could keep a lid on this for now? [The Office]

garner

I think I'm a role model here. I think I garner people's respect. [The Office]

be on to someoen

Oh, well, yeah, he's on to me. [The Office]

beat to the punch

I never actually talked to corporate about it. They kind of beat me to the punch. Uh, little bastards. [The Office]

cocky

I know, I'm getting cocky, right? [The Office]

candidly

Uh, Michael, can I talk to you candidly? [The Office]

cop a squat

Here we go. Take a seat. Cop a squat. [The Office]

stir the pot

No, come on. Stir the pot! Stir the melting pot, Pam! [The Office]

cub

My darling cub. [Jojo Rabbit]

stalemate

—So, it's a Mexican stalemate. —It's just a normal stalemate. [Jojo Rabbit]

oaf

What on Earth are those oafs up to? [Jojo Rabbit]

Goldilocks

And, of course, we are indeed interested in problems of crime and anti-party sentiment, but we still have one greater concern, that of the "Goldilockses". [Jojo Rabbit]

rye

imbibe

edify

eerie

Quiet, eerie tones play over slow, pulsing rhythm. [The Invasion]

in a pickle

Imagine the pickle you'd be in if you didn't know any kids in the neighborhood. [The Invasion]

doormat

You know what Czechoslovakia means in Russian, Doctor? It means a doormat. [The Invasion]

veneer

A veneer of civility hides our true self-interest. [The Invasion]

back-to-back

Carol, you are not going to work. —I have to. I've got back-to-backs all day. [The Invasion]

dabble in

Are you about to say you're gonna judge me for dabbling in pornography? [Booksmart]

barren

Hideous barren orthodontist. [Booksmart]

patsy

We gotta find a patsy for the Connell case and make it stick. [Insomnia]

trite

The guy who thinks the Sanskritians would be so trite as to have a word for war that just means “argument” might think that the only danger is a spat or a misunderstanding.

dazzle

It's the kind of thing you write as a preface. Dazzle them with the basics. [Arrival]

hamper

Who are they? Trying to answer this in any meaningful way is hampered by the fact that, outside being able to see them and hear them, the heptapods leave absolutely no footprint. [Arrival]

prod

We must consider the idea that our visitors are prodding us to fight among ourselves until only one faction prevails. [Arrival]

dawn on

Nothing's complete. Then it dawned on me. [Arrival]

slippery

That is rather slippery of you, Agent Starling. [The Silence of the Lambs]

hiss

He hissed at you. What did he say? [The Silence of the Lambs]

ham-handed

And now this... ham-handed segue into your questionaire. [The Silence of the Lambs]

segue

And now this... ham-handed segue into your questionaire. [The Silence of the Lambs]

acumen

Thrill me with your acumen. [The Silence of the Lambs]

rube

You look like a rube... a well-scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. [The Silence of the Lambs]

fumbling

And, oh, how quickly the boys found you, all those tedious, sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars while you could only dream of getting out, getting anywhere, getting all the way to the FBI. [The Silence of the Lambs]

seek out

Go seek out Miss Mofet, an old patient of mine. [The Silence of the Lambs]

hokey

But, um, I thought the "yourself" reference was, uh, too hokey for Lecter. [The Silence of the Lambs]

tuck away

I did not kill him, I assure you. Merely tucked him away very much as I found him after he missed three appointments. [The Silence of the Lambs]

garden-variety

Garden-variety manic-depressive. Tedious. Very tedious. [The Silence of the Lambs]

fledgling

Just think of him as a kind of experiment, a fledgling killer's first effort at transformation. [The Silence of the Lambs]

exhilarate

Scared first, then... exhilarated. [The Silence of the Lambs]

muzzle

Um, muzzle stamp at the top. [The Silence of the Lambs]

thence

Caterpillar into chrysallis or pupa and, from thence, into beauty. [The Silence of the Lambs]

wheedle

Or did Jack Crawford send you for one last wheedle before you're both booted off the case. [The Silence of the Lambs]

covet

No. He covets. [The Silence of the Lambs]

reckon

But we don't reckon time the same way, do we, Clarice? [The Silence of the Lambs]

creep up

I crept up into the barn house. [The Silence of the Lambs]

dredge up

See what you can dredge up in Belvedere. [The Silence of the Lambs]

supper

I'm sorry to have missed supper, but a physician's hours are not his own, I'm afraid. [Time after time]

bid

Gentlemen, I have called you together tonight to bid you farewell. [Time after time]

poppycock

What? Poppycock! [Time after time]

harness

Twelve years ago, a French engineer harnessed the power of the sun to run a printing press. [Time after time]

balderdash

Balderdash! Go Norh, you get to Glasgow. [Time after time]

charnel

The evidence of human history is that we live in a cosmic charnel house. [Time after time]

frailty

Human frailty at last. [Time after time]

mew

A dead end mews with a high brick wall, sir. [Time after time]

painstaking

The objects in this wall have been painstakingly assembled to form a portrait the public and private life of an extraordinary human being. [Time after time]

big as life

Yesterday afternoon, big as life. [Time after time]

idle

I'm not here to engage in idle banter with you, Stevenson. [Time after time]

banter

I'm not here to engage in idle banter with you, Stevenson. [Time after time]

lose one's wits

I confess that at dinner the other... century I thought you'd lost your wits. [Time after time]

drivel

It's drivel. [Time after time]

bluff

I've played countless games of chess with you, and the one thing you cannot do is bluff. [Time after time]

flaxen-haired

He's a tall, flaxen-haired distinguished-looking Englishman. [Time after time]

cloister away

Just a hunch, I don't know you give me the impression of someone who's cloistered away somewhere most of the time in a library or something doing research and never reads the newspaper. [Time after time]

strike fancy

I wrote articles on whatever struck my fancy. [Time after time]

right off the bat

I guess I shouldn't say all that stuff right off the bat like that. [Time after time]

get off on

Did you ever see Red Shoes? I really got off on that. [Time after time]

helmsman

Helmsman, head a course for the light. [Avatar]

wash out

Don't worry. It'll wash out. [Avatar]

snot

Oh, no, I'm not getting on that fluffy snot monster. [Avatar]

booby-trap

The ship could be booby-trapped. [Avatar]

brothel

In Kazakhstan it is illegal for more than five woman to be in the same place except for in brothel or in grave. [Borat]

New vocabulary

New words I learn mostly from movies.