to avoid doing something try to "avoid it like the plague"). I put off every chance I got...now, what I wouldn’t give to have a dentist in this cave. "To put off’ something is to postpone it, or decide to do it later. "What I wouldn’t give" is a stylistic way of saying "I would give anything if I could…" You want to hear something funny? Back home in Memphis, my dentist’s name is Dr. James Spalding. Chuck is talking to Wilson the volleyball, and he’s noting that his dentist is named Spalding; The two biggest American sport and ball manufacturers are the Wilson and Spalding companies. Bakersfield! A small city in central California. 44 lashings. A rarely used word for a knot or rope or anything used to tie. We’re going to have to make a hell of a lot of rope. A colloquial expression that adds emphasis or emotion. March and April are our best chances for the high tides and ocean breezes. "High tides" are those times at the beach when the water has risen up deep into the sands (which would make it easier to sail away). We need 425 feet of good rope plus another 50 feet for miscellaneous. A key word that means various or diverse things. Round it off to 475 feet of good rope. "To round off" a number is to estimate to the nearest big number (i.e.…498 is usually rounded off to 500). We’re going to be short. "We’re not going to have enough." Do you have to keep bringing that up? Can’t we just forget it? "To bring up" something in a conversation is to start to talk about it. You were right…it wasn’t going to be a quick little snap. A "quick little snap" is a slangy way of referring to something that is very easy to do (A ‘snap" is a brief and sudden sound, such as the type that is made when you forcefully close a book). It was the only option I had at the time. A good word for a choice or possibility. What’s your point? "What are you trying to say?" We might just make it! Did that thought ever cross your brain? In this case, "to make it" means to survive or succeed. Regardless, I would rather take my chances out there on the ocean than to stay here and die on this shithole island. A rarely used but interesting slang word for a small and horrible place. Never again! A common expression that is used to express the desire that something terrible that was done in the past can be allowed to happen again. I’ll do all the paddling! You just hang on! "To paddle" a boat is to move it forward while using oars (wooden sticks) to push it through the water. After four long years, Chuck starts a new life. Dr. Pepper. A popular soft drink. Here’s the drill. The plane pulls in, we get off. "The drill" is a slangy way of referring to a precise plan of action that everybody involved should know
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