Semester Phrases

Phrases

• A bad quarter of an hour
• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• Back to school
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Brook no quarter
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Cell division (biology)
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Fourth Quarter Vince (Nickname of American football player Vince Young)
• Give no quarter
• Grant no quarter
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Honey bunny (a mawkish term of affection)
• Long division
• Pommy bashing (Australian slang term for physical or verbal attacks on the English)
• Portion control
• Rubber johnny (a British slang term for a condom)
• Shack rat (Canadian military slang term for a promiscuous female who visits military barracks to sleep with soldiers)
• Show no quarter
• Sparrow fart (jokey term for the early morning)
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• The Chrysanthemum Throne (the traditional term for the reign of the Emperor of Japan)
• The bull in the bowler hat (jokey term for artificial insemination)
• Yellow belly (slang term for a coward)