offensive, and perhaps loud or vulgar. This is just like in the movies...when the lady vanishes. "To vanish" is an interesting way of saying disappear. Contemptible. Deserving of contempt, despicable, horrible, disgusting, etc... Yeah, well, what you going to do?.... When said with a sigh of despair or sadness, a nice little way to say "Yeah, but that's life..." She and Gerry never did it any more. When referring to couples, to "do it" refers to having sex. She just said it matter-of-factly. An interesting way to say very casually, or without emotion. The kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them. Here, used to mean desire. Note that when you take out something, you remove it. We were in the cab playing I-spy. A game little kids play where they put their hands over their eyes, look through their fingers and scream out what they see. It's this cold, hard ceramic tile. A type of floor covering used in kitchens and bathrooms. I mean, I am really over him. "To be over" somebody is to no longer be hurt by them. Obituary column. The part of the newspaper which lists all the people who have just died, and usually gives a brief summary of their life. Then you tip the doorman. A person who works in large apartment buildings who does various services for the tenants. Very common in New York. Real Estate. The term for houses, condominiums, apartments, etc. You were just so uptight then. "Uptight" is a strongly negative adjective meaning tense, nervous or very socially conservative. OK, you're still hard as nails. "Nails" are the pointed metal tools that are used with a hammer. Thus, this expression means cold, or unfriendly. I didn't want to sleep with you, and you had to write it off as a character flaw. In this case, "to write off" something is to decide it is unimportant. A "character flaw" is a small problem in a person's personality. What is the statute of limitations on apologies? A legal term referring to the time that must pass before a person can no longer be charged with a crime. We both lived in tenements. A word referring to poorly maintained apartment buildings. The Lower East Side. The Bronx. Two different parts of New York City. All right, fine. Have it your way! What you might say after you're too tired to argue anymore. Maybe I'm coming down with something. "To come down" with a cold or other medical condition is to start to feel the first symptoms of it. Last night I was up to 4 in the morning watching "Leave it to Beaver" in Spanish A classic TV show of the 1950s, about a typical American kid. I feel weird when my leg wanders over. "Weird" is a great and common adjective meaning strange. "To wander over" is to move or travel without thinking about
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