Tenure Phrases

Phrases

• Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Bunny suit (Canadian military slang term for a cbrn (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear))
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• High occupancy vehicle lane (a traffic lane reserved for vehicles carrying several people)
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Honey bunny (a mawkish term of affection)
• In residence
• Pommy bashing (Australian slang term for physical or verbal attacks on the English)
• 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)
• Sparrow fart (jokey term for the early morning)
• Suck face (slang term for kissing)
• Take up residence
• 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)