Questions tagged [cultural-phrases]

I have a good friend in his late 60s, and I've made an interesting observation that absolutely no one in our social circle will refer to the female he is (indisputably) dating with the term "girlfriend". A frequent comical substitution is "lady…

In the Harry Potter fandom, there is a curse named Bat-Bogey Hex, that "transforms the target's bogeys into large bats that fly out of the victim's nose". In the Friends TV Series S02E03 right at the beginning of the episode, Chandler breaks up with…

In this article about a news anchor's nearly dying of covid, he described the experience as very scare with this phrase: Ponderosa suddenly out of the prime rib in the middle of the buffet line scary. I am probably missing some cultural references…