across-the-room: if you've got a big nose, people can
take your face the wrong way.
across-the-line: a sea's worth of reception, breaking
up, bad waves.
after-the-game: every one gathered better know each
other's name.
all-of-them: resistance to the establishment.
all-over-it: underscoring a definition.
all-the-time: most-of-it, anyway.
all-the-while: paper or tile?
all-to-see: believe me, it's in this glossary.
anti-versus-anti: pro-con-pro.
appears-to-be: hallucinatory.
apples-and-leaves: wrecked on cider and a million
cigs.
around-a-few: tearing through a paper or two during
Sudoku.
around-the-corner: I heard a whisper.
as-it-was: wasn't was it? As if it was.
as-per-usual: for-a-change.
at-all-times: he keeps an eye on his briefcase.
at-some-point: we've all been there.
at-that-point: orders bring about a point, disorder
contracts to a point. Either way, they arrive at it
eventually, hey.
at-the-time: the only time it can be. 11:11am.
11:11pm. 11secs., and counting.
away-sweet-away: home-sour-home.
back-and-forth: ping-pong, the best of amateur
pursuits. Back-and-forth, ten-toes-up, ten-toesdown,
the best of amateur pursuits!
barter-for-trade: BAFOTRAD.
behind-cut-glass: the working class.
behind-the-lines: reading-through-them.
better-or-worse: in sickness and in health.
bibbers-and-sinners: brothers-in-arms.
big-bad-boys: brothers-in-law.
bin-man-bin: Bin man been?
bit-by-bit: sick of this shit. Seen enough of it!
bit-of-alright: at-the-time.
bits-and-bobs: clits-and-knobs.
black-and-white: read-all-over. The Grand
newspaper went under a year earlier. Or was it a
year later? No chronology, no chapter.
bound-to-be: holding hands with me. Will you
marry me?
bright-young-spark: fuck-load of dark.
brik-a-brak: tic tac.
brothers-and-sisters: trusters-and-trysters. Nosesand-
faces, heirs-and-graces, mothers-and-fathers, all
our sons-and-daughters.
brothers-in-arms: brothers-in-law against the ravers
in war.
business-as-usual: hit-the-shift.
casting-a-glance: glances, glances, places, trances.
caught-her-eyes: eyes, pies, and thighs. Lips, nips,
and hips. Chip dips. Sharing platter.
circle-of-circles: Monadology, atomic science.
city-at-war: no more revolution, I implore.
clear-and-present: danger.
come-of-age: at whatever stage! A hint of the
eternal return.
commander-in-chief: a civilian in charge of the
military.
could-not-be: it-could-be.
cursing-and-sweeping: a birch-end shag-pull
sweeper. And then someone came by and picked up
a letter.
daughter-of-thee: makes for good company.
dicks-and-disses: another missus.
divide-the-booty: shoot-the-arrows.
do-not-display: past its sell-by date, prolly? “Who's
that? She's off her trolley.” “Now she's on her
brolly.”
dog-eat-dog: leave the dogs to the dogs.
doing-a-line: the yellow ones. Code for wrapping
courier streets.
dots-and-lines: Geomantic notation. Messiah
composer.
each-and-all: each to their own.
ebb-and-flow: peak-and-trough.
fags-and-booze: palliatives for the war. What war?
It always comes down to the war.
fall-from-grace: an untied shoelace.
far-and-away: Bonsoireé.
finger-to-finger: a dead ringer.
fingers-and-toes: yet-with-does. As in, doe-eyed.
fit-as-fuck: with that look. It was just the look of the
Tens. Twenty years in the hospital. °Have you seen
the hospital?° Ten years of the good life. Now
retirèd. I was a burn-out but now I'm bouncing
back. Still a spack. So, therefore, cut me some
slack?
five-a-day: all facing the same way.
five-fingered-foray: one-per-day.
for-a-moment: meanwhile.
for-the-noise: two-too-loud.
for-the-win: FTW! … fuck-the-world, in order for
it to continue.
forwards-and-backwards: a rocking chair, no
direction just motion.
four-day-week: three hours a day, according to
Monsieur Fourier!
four-sided-face: and only one has to face the world.
free-to-roam: going home. All roads lead to Rome.
fuck-the-world: in order for it to continue.
go-fund-me: why should we? Is a million dollars
heavy to carry.
going-to-be: thinking about sea. The river bed. The
narrow-minded stream.
gone-to-bed: zed-zed-zed.
good-and-evil: must be kept close together, lest they
oppose one another.
got-the-fist: instead, got-the-finger.
green-and-blue: a primary colour and a secondary
colour make a tertiary colour.
guts-for-garters: fired news editors.
half-an-hour: towards it and away from it.
half-and-half: until paper becomes unfoldable.
hand-in-hand: making ends meet.
hand-to-mouth: gestuel.
happened-to-be: at-any-rate.
hard-and-fast: just the way we like it. Unless your
heart's complaining about it!
having-a-shout: out-and-about!
health-and-safety: High Viz. « Gilet Jaunes! »
heard-a-rumour: from around-the-corner.
heart-of-hearts: ace-of-spades.
heirs-and-graces: noses-and-faces.
held-my-own: big red phone.
here-we-go: here-they-come.
hit-the-shift: 80,000 times in an 8 hour shift. Shiftkey.
home-sour-home: away-sweet-away.
horny-yet-snoring: twice, following the blessing.
hose-end-uppery: skirtery.
house-of-cards: all-fall-down!
in-a-bit: goodbye, leaving to get on with it.
in-a-room: Doom.
in-and-around: below in the playground.
in-and-out: the best of amateur pursuits. Go pro!
in-the-air: the space up there.
in-the-business: on-the-briefcase.
in-the-pit: diggin' it. Getting sooty, then home for a
butty.
ins-and-outs: roundabouts – exits and entryways.
it-could-be: falsity.
joined-as-one: the soul of union.
just-a-thought: in-a-gesture.
just-in-time: “ where's Antoine gone? Justine in
fifteen … Justine time!”
keeping-it-dusty: smelling a bit musty.
kind-of-guy: order of the day … some kind of 'cian.
know-as-one: be-at-one, five-to-one, down The
Baker's, son. Jim Morrison, five-to-one, five
minutes early for his 1pm shift at the Bakery.
{salival excretions and obscurations}
{ … }
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left-to-right: looking-when-crossing.
length-and-breadth: height-and-width.
little-black-book: notches on the belt.
lobbied-one-off: the Jewish lobby of America is a
threat to world peace.
lover-of-make: another mistake.
mags-and-fags: during the afternoon lags.
march-of-the-living: the totalitismus fascismus
racismus currently at work in the concentrated
camps of Ben's post-Bar, Mitzvah!
me-and-you: just-us-two. I ÷ I.
measured-in-blood: drowning pool.
men-in-position: Herr Zwischen, missionary
position.
men-of-letters: muses of musers.
miles-and-miles: what's that in kilometers?
mister-of-me: Adonai.
more-and-more: less-is-more.
names-a-plenty: scarcely any anonymity, all of them
guilty due to reciprocity. The power of three,
rhetorically.
neck-and-cheek: a sex game involving spanking and
throttling.
nice-and-clean: pristene!
nice-and-pretty: your little ditty and your little kitty.
nigger-jaw-clicking: murder-button-thinking.
no-mans-land: one man's country, every man's
country.
none-above-all: hierarchy must fall!
none-but-one: can't think of one.
North-and-South: in the wake of the split.
North-of-England: England situated below.
noses-and-faces: mothers-and-fathers, all our sonsand-
daughters.
not-a-word: could-be-heard.
not-long-after: too soon sooner.
not-one-jot: a blot.
not-one-tittle: not even a little.
not-so-white: lies.
not-to-be: luckily, or otherwise Anontology.
not-to-do: sometimes it's what not-to-do more than
what it is to do.
not-to-me: may as well be not-to-be.
now-then-now: then-and-again.
now-would-we: speaking prematurely.
of-all-trades: master of none.
off-on-one: shift starts at 13:00.
off-the-wall: hinges have fallen down.
on-and-off: open relationships.
on-and-on: off-on-one, anything but halcyon.
on-the-door: what have you come here for?
on-to-me: a fingernail's worth o' Whisky, it'll haveto-
be, discreetly.
one-goes-off: shift on, copyright off. Right off!
online-forum-joking: professional hacking in
disguise.
on-and-off: on-and-on.
on-the-blower: red phone, Ban Ki-Moon.
on-the-floor: « Sur le plancher! »
on-the-job: reading a newspaper on the toilet.
on-the-line: doing-a-line.
on-the-loo: we've all been there at-some-point.
on-the-loose: keys on the keychain. You're the only
one to blame. Locked out again.
on-the-move: the information.
on-the-one: Bootsy Collins.
on-the-pull: Pulling her away from the next guy.
Towards a fairer guy. Fairer hair. Rosier cheeks.
Embarassingly strawberry blonde.
on-the-run: an interrupting nun.
on-the-scene: passin'-a-zine. A « mise en scene … »
is a putting in place. » Kopfkino … « happens when
you're on a bus and you think of something funny
but you're not allowed to laugh so every one else
laughs for you; cause the conversation was funny
you wyrdo!
on-the-side: a bit on the side, like a salad. Or a
lover; a leaf-lover. Or a clover, down in Dover.
on-the-wall: S-A-R-A-I.
on-the-wire: » Das Radio! … « … sometimes the
only one listening is the only one broadcasting.
on-your-way: and play. Smarted botty, rosy cheeks.
one-and-only: yours, truly!
one-less-thing: leave behind everything.
one-of-them: a member of the establishment.
one-of-those: two-of-these.
one's-a-billion: a thousand million, like a whole
gazillion!
one-to-go: « une espresso! … »
one-time-famous: last-time-known.
one-time-spectacle: a spectacle, monopolizèd.
orange-and-red: colours that complement each other.
out-of-hours: in it by the minute.
out-of-sight: line-of-flight.
out-of-them: nothing inside them, whatsoever
(there's virtually nothing there).
out-of-time: ska music, or math rock.
out-of-town: central government.
over-and-over: over-and-out.
over-the-top: the soldiers left the trenches. They
never returned for Christmas.
over-to-me: where it should be.
pack-o'-tens: an apple-for-five. Stayin' alive!
paper-or-two: to do!
passing-a-zine: loading a gun.
Passing-the-River: Cornelius Agrippa.
passing-the-shot: drinking a lot.
pay-per-view: gambling on winning. Isopsephy
Fruit Machine.
pay-their-way: « l'loi d'retour c'est dix per cent,
monsieur … » Single mother's need supporting, too.
pay-to-play: the unsignèd band way.
peak-flow-meter: for those with asthma, as well as a
reader for the digital actor.
peaks-and-troughs: ebbs-and-flows.
piece-of-ass: no matter what social class!
pink-sheet-figures: the numbers in the FT Weekend.
The Fucking Times Weekend.
pints-and-pints: you can drink so much that you can
forget to appreciate that you're binge drinking.
pins-and-needles: prickly heat.
play-on-words: a radical pun.
plenty-of-ones: no nones.
point-something-something: it's rude to point. Make
one instead.
port-of-call: sailors, not soldiers.
power-of-three: rhetorically (annoyingly)!
pro-con-pro: neo-con show.
profit-and-loss: mergers and acquisitions, margins
and propositions.
public-at-large: image conscious.
puff-of-logic: fuck all this evil, I'm Sudoku now.
rank-and-file: with a smile.
rave-or-two: after ten years of going to a rave-ortwo,
a night in, with a good book, and a glass of
sherry by the fire, seems ever more appealing.
Apparently, that's one definition.
read-and-read: a pretty dazèd head.
red-and-black: stand back!
red-and-yellow: colours that fight each other.
rest-of-them: up with the best-of-them, down with
the rest-of-them.
richer-or-poorer: marriage of opposites (like
Rebecca alchemical solution to her Jewish question).
right-on-time: time-on-chime!
ring-of-roses: pocket full of posies.
run-and-play: smartèd botty, rosey cheeks, on-yourway
and play!
server-of-servers: cellular money-grabbers.
set-and-setting: Ess-settings {ß}.
seven-of-sevens: she might be the snake, forcèd to
carry her belly.
shifting-and-spacing: Internet erasing.
shitting-a-brick: brickin' it.
shoot-the-arrows: Khatzeytz!
shorter-and-shorter: intervals, like the ends of
Ayah's. Shorter-and-shorter epochs until the end of
history. A lot of people have investèd their hope in
an anti-climax.
shot-one-off: on the gun range at Camp David, clay
pigeon shooting.
side-to-side: rocking the babe to sleep.
sisters-a-plenty: scarcely any boys.
six-six-six: if in a fix.
sixty-over-forty: we're trading.
sleight-of-hand: the wedding band.
slim-to-none: my chances of being successful.
smoking-the-shit: yeah, we've all done a bit of it.
soldier-come-'cian: lying below, a veteran.
soldier-come-civilian: some kind of 'cian.
space-to-space: you've got holes in your face.
split-in-two: 0=2. For I am divided for love's sake,
for the chance of union. « L'haute science de la arte
magie. »
squaring-a-circle: alchemical and qymiqal.
still-and-taught: an obedient pupil.
stitch-and-bitch: haberdashery!
summer-of-love: 2008, ANNO. 2018. What day of
the Tens is it?
sums-it-up: Isopsephy Fruit Machine! Giz-a-go!
techno-eco-system: “The only good system is a
sound system.” “What about the solar system, you
hippy cunt?”
ten-toes-up: ten-toes-down.
term-in-tow: I thought you were my Battle-Axe, it
turns out you were my Death Blow.
tête-à-tête: another round of café.
thanks-a-one: Maximillian.
things-in-themselves: the objective world.
this-and-that: tit-for-tat.
three-finger-salute: CTRL+ALT+DEL.
three-three-three: third degree. Mastery. I'd rather
play Isopsephy!
through-the-door: peep on peepin' on.
thumb-and-forefinger: a little pinch. Go on, try it!
thumb-to-thumb: 1, 2, 3, 4 … I declare a thumb war!
ticks-and-kisses: instead of dicks-and-disses.
time-and-space: continuum.
time-on-chime: right-on-time.
time-to-confess: lying to a Catholic priest.
time-to-go: wristwatch running slow. Belated &
abated.
time-to-time: zones. Tricky for video conferencing.
to-and-fro: hairs-like-so.
to-to-fro: again, again, hairs-like-so.
turning-in-circles: squaring-a-circle.
two-to-one: a ratio when Delta is split by Gamma.
two-too-loud: for the noise of the crowd.
two-too-many: decisions. There will be time, there
will be time …
two-too-young: but not too far flung.
two-weeks-off: a tissue, a cough. A bless, a dress.
The golden dress, The Nes.
two-weeks-on: when she's not on.
under-the-covers: two Georgia's.
underneath-the-ground: pipelines.
up-and-around: a frown around the crown.
up-and-down: see saw.
up-and-up: the staircase more so than the aeroplane.
up-the-ante: taking up more space in the Glossary.
up-the-duff: don't you think you've had enough of
the kid's stuff?
up-to-some: down-and-dirty.
up-your-sleeve: hanky panky, snotty snotty, hanky
panky handkerchief.
upon-the-bottle: a nineteen-year-old spouse prefers
the bottle to the babe.
upside-down-eye: rightly divining an eye.
V-for-Vendetta: go-get-her.
was-to-be: happened-to-be. You see?
who-from-who: “Well, that makes two.”
who-you-know: and how you got to know 'em.
will-to-love: as below, so above. Ten-toes-up, tentoes-
down.
will-to-power: final hour.
wise-old-man: naive-young-fool.
women-of-pictures: Mona Lisa's.
world-to-come: Olam ha'Ba.
yellow-and-red: it's already been said, colours that
fight each other.
yet-to-find: slipping your mind, leaving things
behind.
yet-with-does: in-her-own.
you-and-me: neither I, nor me, nor You knew the
value.
zero-equals-three: ( +3 -2 ÷1 x0 ).
zero-infinite-zero: the most complex of algorithms.
zines-and-machines: racist ideology as memes.
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