Noon of night is an archaism, a poetic way of saying “midnight.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Noon of Night is the Middle of the Night” I’m sure you can guess what this term means. Noon of night. So midnight? Yes. I came across...
“Do you think I came in on the noon balloon?” is a colorful alternative to “Do you think I was born yesterday?” The phrase pops up both in the columns of the late sportswriter Frank Finch and the 1967 novelty song, “Noon Balloon to Rangoon,” by...
Is there a word you keep having to look up in the dictionary, no matter how many times you’ve looked it up before? Maybe it’s time for a mnemonic device. And: a listener shares a letter from Kurt Vonnegut himself, with some reassuring advice about...
plaster out v. phr.— «I just want to let you know that we got potentially four guys over the line out here. I don’t know how long they’re going to be here. The last couple of days they’ve plastered out of here by noon.» —“Interstate Spat Develops...
pine rooter n.— «Hunters, most using traps but a few with dogs, brought in 13 of the wild hogs, commonly called East Texas pine rooters, for a noon Sunday weigh-in.» —“Jefferson goes hog wild with fund-raiser” by Glenn Evans News-Journal (Longview...
swamp ass
n.— «Summers get so damn humid, a day hardly goes by you don’t have swamp-ass by noon.» —by Henry Hill, Bryon Schreckengost A Goodfella’s Guide to New York Apr. 22, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
