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SHADY BUSINESS
--unreliable
--disreputable
--uncertain
--unethical
--dirty pool (dishonest, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.)
--malicious tactics
--skullduggery (secret and dishonest behavior)
--funny business
--monkey business (mischievous, silly or roguish, deceitful behavior) See also: monkeyshine, note however, racial overtones
“Monkeyshine,” a US coinage dating back to the early 19th century meaning a prank, trick or just boisterous behavior, is one of several English words and phrases that draw parallels, usually not very negative, between human and playful simian behavior. “Monkey business,” “monkey around,” “more fun than a barrel of monkeys,” “monkey see, monkey do,” etc.,
--disreputable
--uncertain
--unethical
--dirty pool (dishonest, unfair, or unsportsmanlike conduct.)
--malicious tactics
--skullduggery (secret and dishonest behavior)
--funny business
--monkey business (mischievous, silly or roguish, deceitful behavior) See also: monkeyshine, note however, racial overtones
“Monkeyshine,” a US coinage dating back to the early 19th century meaning a prank, trick or just boisterous behavior, is one of several English words and phrases that draw parallels, usually not very negative, between human and playful simian behavior. “Monkey business,” “monkey around,” “more fun than a barrel of monkeys,” “monkey see, monkey do,” etc.,
LIP SERVICE: Use this with lipstick ads
--an avowal of advocacy, adherence, or allegiance expressed in words but not backed by deeds --usually used with pay
-- to publicly support or approve of something, while actually taking no action to produce it
--to say something but not actually do it. To pretend that you believe a certain thing but not practice that belief.
--telling someone something that they want to hear
--empty talk, speech that the speaker will not likely act upon
--The term lip service is also used independently, to mean an insincere promise.
--oral sex
-- to publicly support or approve of something, while actually taking no action to produce it
--to say something but not actually do it. To pretend that you believe a certain thing but not practice that belief.
--telling someone something that they want to hear
--empty talk, speech that the speaker will not likely act upon
--The term lip service is also used independently, to mean an insincere promise.
--oral sex
HAND TO MOUTH: Use with images in which hand is near mouth, focusing on desperation?
--in a way that satisfies only one's immediate needs, because of lack of money with which to make provision for the future
--A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on.
--Unloved and uncared-for, they live a meaningless hand to mouth existence.
--“Hand to mouth” was used quite literally during a period of famine in Britain. At that time, there was so little food that whenever people found some form of sustenance, it went straight from their hands to their mouths as they didn’t dare save it for later in case they lost it.
--The term is usually used in the phrases living hand to mouth and living from hand to mouth, meaning just existing from day to day or even from moment to moment. If someone lives from hand to mouth, they have no savings or reserves. In the most extreme circumstances of living hand to mouth, a person does not know from day to day whether they will have food to eat or a place to sleep. Most often, they are living just short of meeting all their financial obligations, and must economize and save money where they can.
--A hand-to-mouth existence is a way of life in which you have hardly enough food or money to live on.
--Unloved and uncared-for, they live a meaningless hand to mouth existence.
--“Hand to mouth” was used quite literally during a period of famine in Britain. At that time, there was so little food that whenever people found some form of sustenance, it went straight from their hands to their mouths as they didn’t dare save it for later in case they lost it.
--The term is usually used in the phrases living hand to mouth and living from hand to mouth, meaning just existing from day to day or even from moment to moment. If someone lives from hand to mouth, they have no savings or reserves. In the most extreme circumstances of living hand to mouth, a person does not know from day to day whether they will have food to eat or a place to sleep. Most often, they are living just short of meeting all their financial obligations, and must economize and save money where they can.
PINK SLIP: use with vintage lingerie, indicating that they are not longer in vogue? fired?
--A pink slip is a written notice that one’s employment is terminated. Supposedly, the term comes from the practice of putting a slip of pink paper in a terminated employee’s envelope as notice. Interestingly, many people have attempted to find the origin of this belief, with little success. Some typesetting and other jobs distributed pink slips of paper in pay envelopes when employees’ w0rk was not up to standard, with the idea that too many pink slips would result in dismissal. This may be the source of the term pink slip to mean job termination. Another possible origin is the practice of printing cancellation notices for vaudeville acts on pink slips of paper. The plural form is pink slips.