"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>   "pony up"


"Pony up" you are also "Divvying up" which basically means either "pay up" 
or "Lend me some money".

>   "put out"
>
> Where I'm from, if somebody is "put out" it means they're dissapointed. 
> However, I've seen this in sentence constructions where that 
> interpretation doesn't make any sense. (For example, 
> http://www.bash.org/?635032 )

    In that context, I think he's talking about girls "putting it about" or 
"Put out" - can't say I've heard that tem though.


>
> And then there's things like
>
>   "stick it to 'em!"

      Back in the days when guns were rare, you'd have a dagger, a sword or 
a staff to defend yourself. "Stick it to 'em!"


>
> Now what is that supposed to mean? Similarly,
>
>   "riding shotgun"

     Riding shotgun in modern terms as I know it is being a passenger on a 
motorcycle or in a side-car on a motorcycle. But back in the Old Wild West 
where cowboy bandits would try to rob a stage coach, the stage coach would 
often have a guy sitting alongside the driver with a shotgun.


>
> Wuh?
>
> Also, what *precisely* does
>
>   "make out"

    As it says Andrew, as it says.  ;)


>   "third base"

     Generally means that you are approaching the 'last base', or getting 
close to the end of what you're doing.


>
> and, while we're on the subject,
>
>   "off base"

      Not really sure about that one - it might have many connotations.


> Hmm... I need to get out more. :-S

  <Mr. O. Hardy> "You most certainly do Stanley, you most certainly do..." 
;)

     ~Steve~





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