grunter's gig
A smoaked hog's face.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
grunting peck
Pork, bacon, or any kind of hog's flesh.
gudgeon
One easily imposed on. To gudgeon; to swallow the bait, or fall into a trap: from the fish of that name, which is easily taken.
guinea pigs
Habitual directors of public companies; special jurymen; and engineer officers doing civil duty at the War Office, and paid a GUINEA per diem.
guinea to a goose
A sporting phrase, meaning long odds in favour of, or against, anything under notice. In the City this state of things is represented by the phrase, Lombard Street to a China orange. There are also other colloquialisms on this subject, but their power is, as a rule, mainly dependent upon their indecency.
gull
A simple credulous fellow, easily cheated.
gull
To cheat, to deceive; also one easily cheated. From the easy manner in which the bird of that name is deceived.
gulled
Deceived, cheated, imposed on.
gullgropers
Usurers who lend money to the gamesters.
gully rakers
Cattle thieves in Australia, the cattle being stolen out of almost inaccessible valleys, there termed GULLIES.
gullyfluff
The waste—coagulated dust, crumbs, and hair—which accumulates imperceptibly in the pockets of schoolboys.
gulpin
A weak, credulous fellow, who will GULP down anything.
gum
Abusive language. Come, let us have no more of your gum.
gummy
Clumsy: particularly applied to the ancles of men or women, and the legs of horses.
gummy
Thick, fat—generally applied to a woman’s ankles, or to a man whose flabby person betokens him a drunkard.
gumption
Or RUMGUMPTION, comprehension, capacity. From GAUM, to comprehend; "I canna gauge it, and I canna GAUM it," as a Yorkshire exciseman said of a hedgehog.
gun
He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities.
gun
A magsman or street thief. Diminutive of gonnuf or gunnof. A GUN’S practice is known as GUNOVING.
gundiguts
A fat, pursy fellow.
gunner's daughter
a device for punishing sailors
gup
Gossip.—Anglo-Indian.
gurrawaun
A coachman, a native Indian corruption of the English word coachman. For another curious corruption of a similar kind, see SIMPKIN.—Anglo-Indian.
gusher
One overflowing with sentiment, a rhapsodizer. Romance-reading young ladies are generally described as GUSHING, and of late years the word GUSH has done duty as representing the newspaper work necessary for a continuance of the "largest circulation."
guts
My great guts are ready to eat my little ones; my guts begin to think my throat's cut; my guts curse my teeth: all expressions signifying the party is extremely hungry.
guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels: said of a hard, merciless, unfeeling person.
gutter blood
A low or vulgar man.—Scotch.
gutter lane
The throat, the swallow, the red lane. See RED LANE.
gutting a quart pot
Taking out the lining of it: i. e. drinking it off. Gutting an oyster; eating it. Gutting a house; clearing it of its furniture. See POULTERER.
guy
A dark lanthorn: an allusion to Guy Faux, the principal actor in the gunpowder plot. Stow the guy: conceal the lanthorn.
guy
A fright, a dowdy, an ill-dressed person. Derived from the effigy of Guy Fawkes carried about by boys on Nov. 5. "Hollo, boys, another GUY!"
guzzle
Liquor. To guzzle; to drink greedily.
guzzle
To eat or drink to excess; to eat loudly, hastily, and clumsily.
guzzle guts
One greedy of liquor.
gybing
Jeering or ridiculing.
gyp
A college runner or errand-boy at Cambridge, called at Oxford a scout. See SCOUT.
gyp
An undergraduate’s servant at Cambridge. Popularly derived by Cantabs from the Greek, GYPS, (γύψ), a vulture, from the dishonest rapacity peculiar to GYPS. At Oxford servants are called scouts.
gather dust
Remain unused.
get a life
Start living a fuller existence.
get a wriggle on
To move quickly or hurry.
get bent out of shape
To take offense; to get worked up, aggravated, or annoyed.
get down to brass tacks
Reach the real matter in hand.
get off the ground
Start happening.
get one's ducks in a row
To become well prepared for a desired outcome.
get one's knickers in a twist
(UK) To become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.
get one's panties in a wad
To become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.
get out of hand
To become uncontrollable; to escalate beyond what was intended.
get the better of
Win an advantage over someone.
get the boot
Be dismissed from your job or position.
gild the lily
Try to improve what is already beautiful.
give and take
Mutual concessions.
give or take
Within an accuracy level.
give the game away
Inadvertently reveal intention.
give them an inch and they’ll take a mile
If you make a small concession to some people, they will demand much more.
give up the ghost
Euphemism for die.
go bananas
Get upset and lose control.
go down the pan
Become lost or deterioriate.
go Dutch
Share the cost of something equally.
go for broke
Risk everything in an all-out effort.
go off the boil
Pass the stage at which interest, activity, etc. is at its greatest.
go overboard
Be excessive.