Feb 2011

2/1 - Oy Vey (kind of like "oops" or "Oh crap")
2/2 - Trip the light fantastic (to dance nimbly or lightly)
2/3 - Harbinger of death
2/4 - Scallywag
2/5 - Time-space continuum
2/6 - A house divided against itself cannot stand
2/7 - Higgledy Piggledy
2/8 - A taste of your/his/her own medicine
2/9 - Actions speak louder than words
2/10 - Out of the frying pan and into the fire
2/11 - Apple of my eye
2/12 - Get thee to a nunnery (quote from Hamlet)
2/13 - Barking up the wrong tree
2/14 - ubiquitous (existing or being everywhere)
2/15 - Can't cut the mustard (inadequate)
2/16 - Three sheets to the wind (staggeringly drunk)
2/17 - Cry over spilt milk
2/18 - As right as rain
2/19 - It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
2/20 - Curiosity killed the cat
2/21 - Don't look a gift horse in the mouth (e.g. don't be ungrateful when receiving a gift)
2/22 - Poppycock (B.S.)
2/23 - Drastic times call for drastic measures
2/24 - Book 'em Danno
2/25 - Elvis has left the building
2/26 - Finger Licking Good
2/27 - Wear your heart on your sleeve (emotions are open to all to see)
2/28 - A penny saved is a penny earned

Jan 2011 List

1/1 - Game.Set.Match
1/2 - 10-4 (bonus for That's a big 10-4)
1/3 - Turbidity
1/4 - antidisestablishmentarianism
1/5 - pushing up daisies
1/6 - obsequious
1/7 - Hoary
1/8 - Sin/sinner (When's the last time you heard that word outside of a church?)
1/9 - vociferous
1/10 - Lunar module
1/11 - camera obscura
1/12 - beehive hairdo
1/13 - Scrap metal drive
1/14 - harlot
1/15 - Dilithium crystals
1/16 - paladin
1/17 - vacillate (Verb: Alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive.)
1/18 - Millard Fillmore
1/19 - fortuitous
1/20 - ubiquitous
1/21 - Cherokee Nation
1/21 - tally ho
1/22 - propinquity
1/23 - wood carver
1/24 - joker's wild
1/25 - conquistador
1/26 - sphincter muscle
1/27 - High-falutin' (fancy)
1/28 - Fahrvergnügen (VW ad campaign from early 90s)
1/29 - How now brown cow?
1/30 - Soup to nuts (means "everything", kind of like "the whole enchilada")
1/31 - cat's meow (the best, something very special)

December List

References
Yiddish words: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-yiddish-handbook-40-words-you-should-know/


2010

12/9 - New Coke
12/10 - da' bomb
12/11 - synergistic
12/12 - proceeding in a northbound direction
12/13 - chutzpah (Yiddish word)
12/14 - orated
12/15 - over and out
12/16 - gestalt (shape) The gestalt of that bike is sinuous (another option)
12/17 - netminder (instead of hockey goalie)
12/18 - enigma wrapped within a riddle
12/19 - pineapple upsidedown cake
12/20 - King Arthur's Court
12/21 - Macroeconomics
12/22 - Fortnight (Fortnightly) [Fortnight = 2 weeks, FYI]
12/23 - Information superhighway (bonus for "surfing the information superhighway")
12/24 - Bespoke
12/25 - The word is born
12/26 - Feast of Stephen ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Stephen )
12/27 - Interloper
12/28 - Insurrectionist
12/29 - Serendipitous
12/30 - Dunderhead
12/31 - Hogmanay (New Year's Eve Celebration)

** more to come, keep giving suggestions.

Phrase Bomb

OK....you know how it works already. Insert the "word/phrase of the day" into posts. Try to work them in naturally so they seem like they fit and weren't coerced into the thread.

DON'T OVER DO IT!!! It will be detected and once its detected, the joke will not work anymore.

After this initial post, I'll keep a list of dates and words/phrases. Please suggest them via PM on the forum and I'll try to keep the list up to date. This list will always be the "definitive" place to find the word/phrase of the day.

Thanks for playing. :)

KT/Chris