understand the assignment
Know what is expected or required in a task or situation
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understandings
The feet or boots. Men who wear exceptionally large or thick boots, are said to possess good UNDERSTANDINGS.
understrapper
An inferior in any office, or department.
understudy
To STUDY a part for the stage, not with the view of playing it at once, but so as to be ready in the event of anything happening to its present representative. Some actors of position, who suffer from delicate health, or mental weakness, have always other and inferior, but more robust, artists UNDERSTUDYING their parts.
undress with one's eyes
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Unearned Increment
The increase in the value of land which results from the building of roads or railways, from the growth of popu- lation, or from the working of mines beneath the surface.
uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Great responsibilities bring great troubles
Unfinished Symphony
Schubert's Symphony in B minor, of which only two movements were completed. Other work or disinclination caused the composer to leave unfinished the four movements he had originally designed.
unfortunate
A modern euphuism for a prostitute, derived from Thomas Hood’s beautiful poem of The Bridge of Sighs:—
unfortunate gentlemen
The horse guards, who thus named themselves in Germany, where a general officer seeing them very awkward in bundling up their forage, asked what the devil they were; to which some of them answered, unfortunate gentlemen.
unfortunate women
Prostitutes: so termed by the virtuous and compassionate of their own sex.
ungrateful man
A parson, who at least once a week abuses his best benefactor, i.e. the devil.
unicorn
A coach drawn by three horses.
unicorn
A style of driving with two wheelers abreast and one leader—termed in the United States a "spike team." "Tandem" is one wheeler and one leader. "Random," three horses in line. "Manchester" means three horses abreast. See HARUM-SCARUM.
unicorn bait
A virgin.
unicorn barf
a bright, shiny, and often overly flashy or attention-seeking thing
unicorn puke
something overly flashy or gaudy
unicorn vomit
something overly idealized or ridiculously perfect
Union of South Africa
The self-governing former colonies of Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, united in a legislature in 1910, with its capital at Pretoria and the seat of government at Capetown.
United States
The forty-eight States, and one Federal District, composing the Federal
united we bargain; divided we beg
Unity gives strength in negotiations
united we stand, divided we fall
Unity leads to strength, while division leads to weakness
unity is strength
Together, individuals can achieve more than alone
university of the streets
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
unknown quantity
A person or thing with uncertain characteristics or outcome
Unknown Warrior
The body of an unknown, and now unidentifiable, British soldier brought home from one of the battlefields of World War I and "buried among the kings'* in
unkooky
Not kooky.
unlicked
Ill-trained, uncouth, rude, and rough; an "UNLICKED cub" is a loutish youth who has never been taught manners; from the tradition that a bear’s cub, when brought into the world, has no shape or symmetry until its dam licks it into form with her tongue. Possibly said of a boy who has been petted, i.e., who has been insufficiently thrashed or licked. Case of spared rod and spoilt child.
unlicked cub
A rude uncouth young fellow.
unmask one's batteries
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Unmerciful Parliament
The. Another name for the Wonderful Parliament (q.v.). U.N.RJR.A.
uno ab alto
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
unparliamentary
Or UNSCRIPTURAL, language, words unfit for use in ordinary conversation.
unrigged
Undressed, or stripped. Unrig the drab; strip the wench.
unring a bell
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
unscoffed
Uneaten.
unshaggable
unfuckable
unsung hero
Someone who makes significant contributions without receiving recognition
until hell freezes over
Forever.
until one is blue in the face
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
until the cows come home
for a very long time
until the cows freeze over
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
until the last dog is hung
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter (African Proverb)
History is often told from the perspective of the powerful
unto the ages of ages
Forever, for all eternity
untruss
To untruss a point; to let down one's breeches in order to ease one's self. Breeches were formerly tied with points, which till lately were distributed to the boys every Whit Monday by the churchwardens of most of the parishes in London, under the denomination of tags: these tags were worsteds of different colours twisted up to a size somewhat thicker than packthread, and tagged at both ends with tin. Laces were at the same given to the girls.
untwisted
Undone, ruined, done up.
unused to
not accustomed or familiar with something
unutterables
Trousers.
unutterables
Or UNWHISPERABLES, trousers. See INEXPRESSIBLES.
unwhisperables
Trousers.
Unwritten Law
Uncodified and unjudicial law which rests for its authority on the supposed right of the individual to take into his own hands the avenging of personal wrongs-^especially sexual offences against his womenkind.
up
"to be UP to a thing or two," to be knowing, or understanding; "to put a man UP to a move," to teach him a trick; "it’s all UP with him," i.e., it is all over with him; when pronounced U.P., naming the two letters separately, means settled, or done UP. "UP a tree," see TREE.
up a creek without a paddle
In a difficult situation without help or resources
up a height
at a higher position or level
up a tree
in a difficult or confusing situation
up a tree
In a difficulty, in a mess, non- plussed, An American phrase, from 'coon hunting. As soon as the coon is driven up a tree he is helpless.
up against
facing a challenge or obstacle
up against it
Facing a difficult or challenging situation
up against something
facing a problem or challenge