slang word for dollars. We’re a couple of financial wizards! Those Rockefellers! "Wizards" are very smart people. The Rockefellers were America’s richest family up until the 1960s. George and Mary grow their family as the war comes home while Potter thinks of a way to finally beat the Baileys. Holy mackerel, I’m married! Where’s Mary? A very old-fashioned way of expressing great surprise or excitement. Liver pills? Who wants to see liver pills on their honeymoon? "Liver pills" were popular medicines in the 1930s. A"honeymoon" is the vacation that a newly married couple take after their wedding. He’s the groom, idiot! This is their honeymoon. The "groom" is the man who is getting married in a wedding (while the bride is the woman he’s marrying). Bread, that this house may never know hunger. A poetic way of celebrating the building of a new house. And wine, that joy and prosperity may reign forever. "Prosperity" is an important word in economics meaning good fortune and material success. "To reign" is to rule over, like a king. Mr. Potter, it’s no skin off my nose, because I’m just your rent collector, but you just can’t laugh off this Bailey Park anymore. "It’s no skin off my nose" is an old expression that means "It doesn’t hurt me personally." And to "laugh off" something is to not take it seriously, which Potter was doing with the new homes at Bailey Park. Look at it today! Dozens of the prettiest little homes you ever saw, 90% of them owned by suckers who used to pay rent to you. A "sucker" is a widely used word for a fool or stupid person. The local yokels are making with those David and Goliath wisecracks. A "yokel" is a naïve or uneducated person, probably from the country, but this word is never used anymore. "David and Goliath" are the two famous characters in the Bible that symbolize how a much weaker person can defeat a much stronger one. A "wisecrack" is a joking reply. The Baileys were chumps; Every one of those homes is worth twice as much as it cost the Building and Loan to build it. Another word for a fool, although this is much less common. The Baily family has been a boil on my neck long enough. A "boil" is an infected bubble under the skin, but this expression, meaning a problem, or more colloquially, a pain in the ass, isn’t used. Still got the nose to the old grindstone? A "grindstone" is a rock which is used to sharpen knifes. This is a way of asking somebody if they’re still working very hard. I offered to let George in on the ground floor in plastics and he turned me down cold! :: Don’t rub it in! "To turn an offer down cold" is to completely reject it. "Don’t rub it in" is a good expression that is used when a person is feeling bad, perhaps because of a stupid decision
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