UNVEIL

Unveil - make something secret known; uncover; remove a veil.

e.g.

We unveiled the Revology Mustang replica to the public for the first time today at 

the Amelia Island Concours.

https://www.facebook.com/revologycars/posts/404991513003910

or

We worked hard to unveil the way some reporters were not giving complete news.

BUTTER SOMEONE UP

flatter someone to get what you want

e.g.

She's been so nice to me lately. I am sure she is trying to butter me up so she can leave early from work.

or

I'm just going to butter up the teacher – I'm sure she'll give me another

extension.”

www.bloomsbury-international.com/.../101-butter-someone-up.html

SHAKEDOWN

Mafia uses shakedown to get information or money from the people they "protect".

- extortion through blackmail

e.g.

Officers get tipped off to a drug shipment in the prison - and now they are ready for a shakedown.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/lockdown/videos/prison-shakedown/

GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW

Get your ducks in a row - get your affairs in order; organize.

e.g.

Before you talk to the police, you should get your ducks in a row. They are going to scrutinize your story and alibi.

or

Planning To Divorce? Better Get Your Ducks In a Row!

http://sfdivorcecoach.com/planning-to-divorce-better-get-your-ducks-in-a-row/

SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT

PUT  RIGHT A MISTAKE

e.g.

A letter from him later put the record straight, saying he 'd had his leg amputated in a hospital in Bulgaria.

http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/straight

SWITCHEROO

SWITCHEROO  is a used to talk about an unexpected change of events, character, attitude etc. 

Seinfeld once tried to pull girlfriend switcheroo because his girlfriend's roomate had a nice laugh and his girlfriend had no sense of humor. He couldn't live with that, being a comedian.

eg.

Note the clever switcheroo in the sentence “nature offers no compelling evidence for an intelligent designer and countless examples of unintelligent design.” Here he cleverly switches from designer to design. ID isn’t about evidence for any particular designer but about evidence of design. Harris thus uses the cliam that nature exhibits “unintelligent design” as evidence (proof?) of no designer. This is a subtle, but clever, re-statement of the old “God wouldn’t not have done it that way” argument we’ve seen so often in the past.

http://www.teleological.org/blog/2006/12/14/sam-harris-on-how-to-build-a-straw-man-and-other-fallacies/

or

Jerry: No, no, the old switcheroo is you poison your drink then you switch it with the other person's.

www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheBurning.html

PROD

My teenage daughter never enjoyed studying so I prodded her to study through high school and now, to my surprise, she became a straight A student in college.

or

While they always prodded him to study, they were fine with the marks that he was getting.

https://books.google.com.br/books?isbn=8132207157

PROD (t.v.) - urge to action

PUT A LOT OF GONE BETWEEN A AND B

If you want to stay alive, you have to put a lot of gone between you and Shannon. She is a complete wacko.

or


With a bike like that, I could put a lot of 

gone between me and an angry wife.

advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=22986281

THAT'S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES

Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started, but that is 

just the way the cookie crumbles.

www.searchquotes.com/search/Thats_How_The_Cookie_Crumbles/

That is how it is. What did you expect?

* That is life.

GROW OPS

GROW OPS  - Ilicit marijuana crops, usually in residential areas.


How to recognize
a grow op:
http://justice.alberta.ca/programs_services/safe/growop/pages/spot/index.html

I DON'T WANT YOU TO BURN UP A BUNCH OF BRAIN CELLS

I DON'T HAVE A DOG ON THIS FIGHT

e.g.

By the way, I don't have a dog on this fight since my candidate Al Gore it is not running for president.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/01/31/446807/-Forget-about-Super-Tuesday-8211-the-decision-has-already-been-made

DARN YOUR SOCK

picture worth a thousand words!

BE UP IN ARMS ABOUT/OVER SOMETHING

BE VERY ANGRY ABOUT SOMETHING

EXAMPLE:

North Bay residents up in arms over TransCanada plan to switch crude oil for gas in local pipeline.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/09/28/north_bay_residents_up_in_arms_over_transcanada_plan_to_switch_crude_oil_for_gas_in_local_pipeline.html

WOLF DOWN

Wolf down - consume food quickly, disregarding table manners.

e.g.

if you manage to wolf down a sandwich in two minutes flat, there probably isn't a great deal wrong with it. Taste-wise, this is a middle-of-the-road job: the tuna is your standard mayo-slathered variety, but the salad is freshly prepared, saving on sogginess. On the downside, the bread is oddly sweet and salty (How?). Pricey.

3 stars

M&S tuna & sweetcorn

                                                                               http://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/oct/01/officehours.workandcareers8

GET GO

from the very beginning

e.g.

WordPress for HIPAA-compliant site or bad idea from the get-go? 

community.sitepoint.com/t/wordpress-for...from-the-get-go/43768

DEAR JOHN LETTER

This is not any kind of letter.

A 'dear John letter' is a letter written to a husband or boyfriend to let him know the wife/girlfriend is no longer interested in him and she wants to start seeing other people. Nice, eh?

BURY THE HATCHET

http://www.trivalleylifechurch.org/2012/12/03/burying-the-hatchet/

How many times have you heard the saying, “Let’s just bury the hatchet!”?  It carries the meaning of resolving conflict in a relationship by forgetting the past.

CHERRY PICK

 to select the best or most desirable

e.g.

We got an entry in the forum from a user asking several questions about merging and cherry-picking and I was about answering it when I realized the questions might be good for a wider audience, so here I’m writing a new blog post!

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2012/05/cherry-pick-vs-merge.html

or

Is there a way to cherry pick packages from a ppa repository you add? That is, to exclude some from updating while including others?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/170235/how-do-i-cherry-pick-packages-from-a-ppa

OLD WIVES' TALE

If you step on a crack, odds are, you won’t break your mama’s back. Yep, there are plenty of old wives’ tales out there that have long been debunked by science — your body really doesn’t take years to digest gum — or reason — even if your eyes are twitching, you probably won’t come into a pile of riches. But let’s give our ancestors a little credit, shall we? Indeed, there are some old wives’ tales that are totally, completely real. Click through to read more about them.

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/old-wives-tales-true.html

SUPERSTITION