roast for dinner tonight? A traditional type of beef, usually served with potatoes. I’m just kidding. "To kid" around is to be joking, or not serious. Have you ever watched pornographic videos? Adult movies that are filled with graphic sex. What did you tell him? :: Nothing, I yanked the little things off before I had to answer. "To yank off" something is a phrasal verb which means to forcefully or quickly pull it off from something else. Is this how you would react if I told you he shoved bamboo shoots up my fingernails...or does he hook up all your boyfriends to his machine? "To shove" something is to forcefully push it. "Bamboo shoots" are hard plant roots that are found in Asia. "To hook up" a person to a machine is to connect them to it. He was never in the rare flower business. That was just his cover. In this case, a "cover" is a fake story that is designed to fool people so they won’t know the truth about a situation. How come you didn’t tell me? :: It was strictly on a need to know basis. "How come" is a common way of asking why. "Strictly" means completely or exactly. If something is on a "need to know basis," only those people who truly need to know are ever told about it. He was like a psychological profiler. They used him to interrogate suspected double agents in the company. A "psychological profiler" is a person who analyses the personal psychology and behavior of people in order to see what kind of people they really are. "To interrogate" a person is to question them very seriously, often over several hours or more. A "double agent" is a spy for one country who is actually spying for another. I was scared of your dad when I thought he was a florist. It’s wonderful to know that I’ve actually got a CIA spy hunter on my ass. A "florist" is a person who sells flowers. If a person is "on your ass," they are trying to capture or perhaps hurt you. Slangy, but useful (The CIA is the Central Intelligence Agency, a US spying organization). This is a lot to take in, honey. I’m sorry. In this case, " to take in" a lot means to learn a lot that is quite overwhelming or dramatic (Here, that Jack worked for the CIA). Pam told me that she let you in on a little secret of mine. "To let a person in on" a secret is to tell them it. You are now on the inside of what I like to call "the Byrnes’ family circle of trust." This is Jack’s way of referring to those people who are close enough to the family that they can be trusted not to tell all of their secrets. Somebody had a little visit from the hair fairy. A "fairly" is a tiny magical figure that is shaped like a human that appears in children’s stories. This is a totally ridiculous way of saying that Greg’s hair does not look very good. I’ll do the intros, Greg. A slangy way of saying
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