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Following on from some posts and suggestion from trentvoyager on the Going Off Topic thread, a thread for suggesting new meanings for old words.

To start - Government: meaning a loss of control. Sentence: I got such a fright, my bowels went full government.

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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2019, 05:49:59 PM »
See also my new thread.
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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2019, 06:04:30 PM »
Corbyn - receptacle for well-meant but out-dated ideas, such as eradicating poverty and defending the NHS.
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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2019, 06:19:16 PM »
News - extremely scary. Sentence: It had so much news, my bowels went full government.

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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2019, 06:58:39 PM »
Boris: lying
Johnson: liar.
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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2019, 10:50:37 PM »
Boris: lying
Johnson: liar.

Johnson is of course already in slang usage as a word for penis. Fits right in really - lying prick.
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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2019, 08:13:48 AM »
Private life = groping women without consent. Usage: The private life of the PM isn't something I am going to discuss.

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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2019, 09:17:10 AM »
Corbyn - receptacle for well-meant but out-dated ideas, such as eradicating poverty and defending the NHS.

See, that's a noun, I'd have it as a verb...

Corbyn - to engineer a situation where your own ineptitude stands you in good stead ( for instance, planning to renegotiate a deal with Europe to put to the nation in a referendum where you plan to campaign against it...)

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Re: New meanings for words (Satire - being exhausted when you sit down)
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2019, 11:58:08 AM »
Countryside - the murder of Boris Johnson.
Eggs Benedict - the last pope's favourite breakfast (ex-Benedict - geddit? Oh well, please yourselves.)
Satire - anger on first day of the weekend.

This is essentially ISIHAC's 'Uxbridge English Dictionary'. I vote the thread gets re-named accordingly.
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