︎set it down
v. phr.— «You are not only more likely to set your bike down, but you are more likely to die when you set it down then to just loose some skin.» —“Driving under the influence” by Michael Litchfield Usenet: alt.drugs May 13, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital is a sensuous, exhilarating meditation about the strangeness of life on a space station, with its mix of tedious tasks and jaw-dropping views. And: a musician who rode the rails in his youth shares the slang he...
Steve, a singer-songwriter from Rock Springs, Wyoming, shares some slang he picked up while months riding the rails and busking. Spanging refers to panhandling, from asking for “spare change.” The term bull refers to a type of security...