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Street-smart/street smart (adj.)
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/street+smart

A couple of commentaries on the basic definition:
#1
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Street Smart is the ability/ skill to come out of every situation with the favorable outcome. It's a combined knowledge of prior life experiences and natural logic. These people are not naive and cannot be easily manipulated.

Someone who's street smart tend to :

knows what's going on in the world around them - they detect BS very quickly
Know the various types of people that exist and how to deal with each one and know how to act around them.
Know how to get out of sticky situations
knows how to make sound decisions that will benefit him/her
To have common sense at level 9000.
Knows how not to get screwed over or be taken advantage of. ( if anything they take advantage of you )
Be open minded, listen and understand the order of everyday things.
Most importantly they know how to read between the lines and see things for exactly what they are.
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Normally it has to do with shady stuff knowledge:

Knowing where and who in the neighborhood is sexually exploitable;
Knowing where and who in the neighborhood sells drugs/weapons;
Knowing which places are easy to steal from;
Knowing the extend to which someone has criminal power in the city (for example, some gangsters have connection in the taxi industry for drug transport, some restaurants are frauds that are only used to spend illegal money, sex clubs, bars, beauty shops, etc…);
Knowing where and who are the clients for the different illegals services (sex, drugs, weapons, etc…);
Knowing where and how to go if police is after you;
Knowing how to use multiple cellphones for different reasons;
Knowing how to intimidate people and how to respond to intimidation;
Knowing who is corrupted (police officers, academics, politicians, etc…);
Knowing that no ones really has your back and that you are better off alone.
The sourse: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-defin ... s%E2%80%9D
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hair pie (vulg.)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... hair%20pie
Chanced upon it a minute ago in The Hoods by Harry Gray (chapter 13) and couldn't help sharing:)
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What's up? What's percolating, Max?”
“You guys know Nutchy the Shylock?”
“Yeh, we know the bastard. He's no good,” Jake replied. “He's the kind of guy who talks through both sides of his mouth and whistles 'I frig you truly.' I tried to hit him up some time ago. 'No dice,' he said. He don't do business with no goniffs, only honest people. He's tighter than the rear of a fat woman in slacks.”
“Yeh,” Pipy cut in, “he stinks on ice. We know him. He'd sell his grandmother for a Hershey bar.”
“With or without almonds?” Cockeye asked.
He goes in for hair pie,” Goo−Goo added.
“Okay, Okay, cut it,” Maxie said. “You guys can give a guy a pretty good recommendation.
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Gallivant (v.) - to wander aimlessly in search of pleasure
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"Where's Booper now? I don't want her meandering all around the deck chairs again, bothering people. If that awful man--"
"She's all right. I gave her the camera."
Mr. McArdle lurched up on one arm. "You gave her the camera!" he said. "What the hell's the idea? My goddam Leica! I'm not going to have a six-year-old child gallivanting all over--"
from a D.J.Salinger's short story I've just read
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VictorB пишет: 17 фев 2021, 18:03Gallivant
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1. A girl’s place is in the home, not gallivanting around and filling her head with nonsense.

2. Well you won’t be able to go off gallivanting around like this when there’s a baby to be taken care of.

3. You’re too old to go gallivanting around Europe.

4. He just gallivants about instead of working.

5. They should spend less time gallivanting about and more with their children.

6. She should be home with the children, not gallivanting around.

7. Oh, stop all this gallivanting about, and settle down to do something!

8. We have no time to gallivant about.

9. He can do his gallivanting in the daylight hours with or without milk bottles.

10. They shall spend less time gallivant about and more with their children.

11. The mother has shown a poor sense of responsibility, often gallivanting off somewhere and leaving the children on their own.

12. Is that what you tell your patients, to go dancing and gallivanting around just after breaking a hip?

13. Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world?

13. TranslateEN.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.

14. But Phelps is 23 years old, bound to toke up, drink and gallivant around with the ladies.

15. One day, a young man in a bad mood, because he walked out of the door, wander aimlessly gallivant about, unconsciously came to the deep forest.
from etymonline пишет:Young Lobski said to his ugly wife,
"I'm off till to-morrow to fish, my life;"
Says Mrs. Lobski, "I'm sure you a'nt",
But you brute you are going to gallivant."
What Mrs. Lobski said was right,
Gay Mr. Lobski was out all night.
He ne'er went to fish, 'tis known very well
But where he went I shall not tell.
["Songs from the Exile," in "Literary Panorama," London, 1809]
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cognoscente [kahn-yuh-SHEN-tee] = connoisseur
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day
He was a brilliant cosmopolite and a cognoscente of high rank; but, after all, he was of the same race and blood and instinct as this people.
O'Henry, Cabbages and Kings
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis:

Surely, an invented very long word, interesting being presumably the longest (45 letters) English word, meaning a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust from a volcanic eruption. (Should anyone have a longer word to share, please, do.)

Pronounced:
BrE: nyoo•muh•now•uhl•truh•mai•kruh•sko•puhk•si•luh•kow•vol•kei•now•kow•nuh•ow•suhs
AmE: noo•muh•now•uhl•truh•mai•kruh•skaa•puhk•si•luh•kow•vaal•kei•now•kow•nee•ow•suhs
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ru/%D0 ... noconiosis

Split into key words

pneumon1/oultra2/micro3/scop4/ ic5/silico6/volcano7/koni8/osis9

1. pneumon=lung, breathe

2. oultra=beyond, exceeding

3. micro=minute, small by comparison

4. scop=watch, see

5. ic=like, nature of

6. silico=flint

7. volcano=volcano

8. koni=dust

9. osis=disease
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VictorB пишет: 14 мар 2021, 12:55 1. pneumon=lung, breathe

2. oultra=beyond, exceeding
Obviously, it should be:
pneumono
ultra
VictorB пишет: 14 мар 2021, 12:55koniosis
coniosis seems to be a more common spelling.

IRL, you should just say 'silicosis'.
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Dragon27 пишет: 14 мар 2021, 13:52 you should just say 'silicosis'.
There's always more than one way to skin a cat--it's the word's length that I had in mind posting. Pneumono and ultra, yes, it should be these ones; thanks for not missing it, though)
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Aaat laaaast! 💉
And there's a word for it now. 😁
https://medium.com/the-haven/quiz-are-y ... dd2b21e545

VAXHOLE

Lexically sizzling/steaming/piping hot!
Straight from the vocabulary oven/pot!
Hot off the neologism stove/griddle/fire!
A new word to meet your semantic desire!
The term was coined in February of 2021 as the COVID-19 vaccine was distributed. People who were able to receive the two doses of the vaccine began bragging about their vaccinated status on social media and in-person.
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Помогите перевести выражения

back-integrated production
back-integration
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Androbroiler пишет: 22 апр 2021, 13:23 back-integrated production
back-integration
https://www.multitran.com/m.exe?l1=1&l2 ... ntegration
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В Твин Пикс услышал
a doohickey - a thingy, a thingamajig.
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Роман Молти пишет: 24 апр 2021, 10:31 В Твин Пикс услышал
a doohickey - a thingy, a thingamajig.

There is nothing for it but to deplore your vicious taste.

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Харбин Хэйлунцзян пишет: 24 апр 2021, 13:30 a doohickey - a thingy, a thingamajig
Oh, there're quite a few ones synonymous with those, yet (far) rarer seen or not found at all (at least in that meaning) in googlebooks, though:

doodad, gismo (gizmo), thingamabob, dojigger, thingummy, dingus, doobrie, doodah, doofer ...;

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... moothing=3
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"Doodad" is inextricably tied in my mind with Warcraft 3 World Editor.
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VictorB пишет: 24 апр 2021, 15:26 Oh, there're quite a few ones synonymous with those, yet (far) rarer seen or not found at all (at least in that meaning) in googlebooks, though:

doodad, gismo (gizmo), thingamabob, dojigger, thingummy, dingus, doobrie, doodah, doofer ...;

У меня есть доступ к WordNet:

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=doohickey

И на TFD я это все тоже видел.

Слово gizmo я знаю и помню потому что оно включено в программу Vocabulary.Com:

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/gizmo

Еще одно из этих слов - thingummy - я встречал в книжке:

Gwen said, "The other girl who got pregnant. I don't want to know her name …"
"I wouldn't tell you."
"Did she use the thingummy - the three-point program?"
"Yes."

Airport, by Arthur Hailey

Возможно что еще встречал, но этот диалог почему-то врезался в память.

Я имел ввиду что мне никогда не пришло бы в голову назвать какое-либо из этих слов интересным.

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Blamestorming - n. the act of finding someone/something to blame for a problem.
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fuck you money - сумма, достаточная чтобы бросить своего работодателя и отлично себя чувствовать (кстати, употреблялось в русскоязычной передаче).
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QwestDay пишет: 05 май 2021, 15:41 fuck-you money
Если оставаться в рамках (не знаю, имеет ли это самое значение):
That’s the thing with major celebrities who upset the apple carts of politics or culture, they have enough “up yours” money to say and do what they will.

How to Abramovitz respond? He sued his ex for $300,000 for ruining his future. He won, too, and the judge added an extra $50,000 of “up yours” money.
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Добрейший день всем)
Deedle-deedle-dumpkin - это что за чудо?
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lando пишет: 04 июн 2021, 07:10что за чудо?
Гуглим..)
Из Стивена Кинга, например:
Deedle-deedle-dumpkin everything. Last time you were so determined I was gonna stay behind you were willing to take a chance on me ...
Обыгрывается:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddle, ... y_Son_John
И, соответственно, +dump, кяп.

Любит он издевательства над языком...)

Из истории этого рэпчика:
Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science - Volume 8 - Page 275
1885


Есть ещё более возвышенные интерпретации в стиле 'Колобок - солярный символ, звери - зодиакальные знаки..'))
Leisure Readings - Page 253
Richard Anthony Proctor · 1907
It is noteworthy that the mystic words “diddle diddle” occur, very little modified in form, in the verse beginning, “Deedle deedle Dumpkin, my son John.” Here John or Jack is, as elsewhere, a solar figure. Dumpkin or Dumpty, we have already seen, is a title of the setting sun (the sun's retirement clothed in clouds is manifestly...
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bupkis
(US, slang) Absolutely nothing; nothing of value, significance, or substance.
We searched for hours and found bupkis.
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Alistar пишет: 13 июл 2021, 21:05bupkis
Bupkis means absolutely nothing. It comes from the Yiddish bobkes, meaning nonsense or nothing*, and it emerged in English during the early 20th century. It began as North American Jewish slang, but it's now used more broadly, often for humorous effect.

*Borrowed from Yiddish באָבקעס‎ (bobkes), plural of באָבקע‎ (bobke, “goat or sheep dropping”), from באָב‎ (bob, “bean”) +‎ ־קע‎ (-ke).

Judaism For Dummies
Ted Falcon, ‎David Blatner · 2019
Bubkes. While bubkes (pronounced “bub-kiss”) stems from the Russian word for “beans,” it means something trivial or of no value.
Leo Rosten writes, "Bubkes must be uttered with either scorn, sarcasm, indignation or contempt. The expletive takes over where 'Nonsense!', 'Baloney!' or 'Bushwa!' stop for a rest."
What are they paying you? Bubkes!
bupkis,bobkes,bopkes,bubkes,bubkis,bupkas,bupkes,bupkiss,bupkus

https://getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=Bupkis
https://getyarn.io/yarn-find?text=Bubkes

PS Заодно и 'нервно курит в сторонке'..))
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pingdemic
https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/pingdemic-what-meaning-nhs-covid-app-self-isolate-how-many-explained-1109939 пишет:What is the ‘pingdemic’?
The phrase is a play on words made up of the terms “pandemic” and “ping”. It refers to being notified by the NHS Covid-19 app on your phone.
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When you are “pinged” by the app, you are advised to self-isolate for a set amount of time. The notification is sent after the app registers that you have been close contact with someone who has tested positive with Covid-19.
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A breakthrough infection is
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a case of illness in which a vaccinated individual becomes sick from the same illness that the vaccine is meant to prevent. Simply, they occur when vaccines fail to provide immunity against the pathogen they are designed to target. Breakthrough infections have been identified in individuals immunized against a variety of different diseases including Mumps, Varicella (Chicken Pox), and Influenza.[1][2][3] The character of breakthrough infections is dependent on the virus itself. Often, the infection in the vaccinated individual results in milder symptoms and is of a shorter duration than if the infection was contracted naturally.[4]
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