Det Springende Punkt * says:
BRIC-A-BRAC, NOUN:
miscellaneous objects and ornaments of little value.
"There were also quite a lot of Indian traders with their stalls full of bric-a-brac , combs, hair pins, scarves, etc."
SYNONYMS: ornaments, knickknacks, trinkets, bibelots, gewgaws, gimcracks, tchotchkes, bits and pieces, odds and ends, things, stuff, junk
Det Springende Punkt * says:
DING-DONG, NOUN:
a silly or foolish person.
"After all, who else deserves public recognition for dealing with those ding-alings, dingbats, and ding-dongs who dial you for answers to really dumb questions."
ADVERB:
with the simple alternate chimes of or as of a bell.
"the church bells go ding-dong"
(of a contest) evenly matched and intensely waged.
"the game was an exciting ding-dong battle"
Det Springende Punkt * says:
FLIP-FLOP, NOUN:
a light sandal, typically of plastic or rubber, with a thong between the big and second toe.
"Since I don't recommend wearing leather, suede, or any kind of dressy shoe to the beach, plastic or rubber flip-flops are the perfect solution."
a backward handspring.
"Equally renowned was her power on balance beam, where she tumbled a very high back layout to two feet, and dismounted with two flip-flops to a full-twisting double back."
VERB:
move with a flapping sound or motion.
"she flip-flopped off the porch in battered sneakers"
Det Springende Punkt * says:
Kit Kat is a chocolate-covered wafer bar confection created by Rowntree's of York, United Kingdom, and is now produced globally by Nestlé, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, and closed it in 2006,[1] with the exception of the United States where it is made under license by H.B. Reese Candy Company, a division of The Hershey Company.
www.wikiwand.com/en/Kit_Kat
Det Springende Punkt * says:
RICKRACK, NOUN:
braided trimming in a zigzag pattern, used especially as decoration on clothes.
"Once the main parts of the figure were completed in felt, an assortment of ribbons, lace trim, rickrack , buttons, sequins and feathers were added to decorate the circus performers."
Det Springende Punkt * says:
RIPRAP, NOUN:
loose stone used to form a foundation for a breakwater or other structure.
"Both the pool and its protective lining of stone riprap must be properly sized."
VERB:
strengthen with riprap.
"A creek near the back of the house was riprapped with large chunks of sidewalk that were jackhammered out"
Det Springende Punkt * says:
SEESAW, NOUN:
a long plank balanced in the middle on a fixed support, on each end of which children sit and swing up and down by pushing the ground alternately with their feet.
synonym: teeter-totter
VERB:
change rapidly and repeatedly from one position, situation, or condition to another and back again.
"the market seesawed as rumors spread of an imminent cabinet reshuffle"
Det Springende Punkt * says:
SHILLY-SHALLY, VERB:
fail to act resolutely or decisively.
"the government shilly-shallied about the matter"
SYNONYMS: dither, be indecisive, be irresolute, vacillate, waver, hesitate, blow hot and cold, falter, drag one's feet, hem and haw, dilly-dally
NOUN:
indecisive behavior.
"He had had enough of the shilly-shallying that now dominates the game's upper echelons."
Det Springende Punkt * says:
TEETER TOTTER, NOUN:
a seesaw.
"The playground consisted of two large slides, ten swings, a teeter-totter , sand box, and a large jungle gym to run around in."
VERB:
teeter; waver.
"This said shoe is usually very difficult to walk in, with the wearer teeter-tottering from A to B and back again."
Det Springende Punkt * says:
TIC-TAC-TOE, NOUN:
a game in which two players seek in alternate turns to complete a row, a column, or a diagonal with either three O's or three X's drawn in the spaces of a grid of nine squares.
"Use washable window markers to make colorful creations that even passers-by can enjoy, or to play endless, paper-free games like tic-tac-toe and hangman."
Det Springende Punkt * says:
TICKY-TACKY, ADJECTIVE:
(especially of a building or housing development) made of inferior material; cheap or in poor taste.
"ticky-tacky little houses"
NOUN:
inferior or cheap material, especially as used in suburban building.
"The number of single-person households is on the rise; we all want our own little boxes made of ticky-tacky ."
Det Springende Punkt * says:
TITTLE-TATTLE, NOUN:noun
idle talk; gossip.
"I reckon the gossip surrounding her breasts is just that - idle tittle-tattle ."
VERB:
engage in gossip or idle talk.
"Yet the latest Royal scandal reminds us that as a nation we are still in thrall to gossip and tittle-tattle about the famous - and especially royalty."
Det Springende Punkt * says:
WISHY-WASHY, ADJECTIVE
(of drink or liquid food such as soup) weak; watery.
"Before moving on, I drink a cup of tepid wishy-washy Amsterdam espresso tasting and smelling of unclean canal water, with ‘Sally’, my obnoxious Salisbury suitcase, parked at my feet."
SYNONYMS: watery, weak, thin, tasteless, flavorless, insipid
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