Apparently it's a fixation/addition. Supposed to have originated from Great Jones Street in Manhattan, a place associated with drug addicts.
Straight outta Old Compton St, our Sal![Roll eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Straight outta Old Compton St, our Sal
Apparently it's a fixation/addition. Supposed to have originated from Great Jones Street in Manhattan, a place associated with drug addicts.
Straight outta Old Compton St, our Sal![]()
Personally, I've never gone in to a massage as if it's a fight. I never realised beauty treatments were so aggressive
my American work colleague uses the term, in her defense she is actually straight outta Syracuse, not just being pretentious
Ah.
Thank you.
I presume the street talk the Brighton Massive use hasn't reached my neck of the woods yet.
Apparently it's a fixation/addition. Supposed to have originated from Great Jones Street in Manhattan, a place associated with drug addicts.
Straight outta Old Compton St, our Sal![]()
I had to do a bit of internet searching for it, I wish I had Susie Dent's brainThank you. I always thought it was a ‘keeping up with the Joneses’ etymology. Love to know the truth. (Word nerd alert)
It's too "feminine" or what not, so a facial must resemble Bruce Lee's training session to make it non-frivolous.Wait, so the word "pampering" is "meaningless, infantile, a bit 80s and decidedly naff", but cosseting ...
Even a beef-faced skidmark!Anyone can write opinion
Jonesing is in common usage here. Probably a bit cringe there though, and with her accent it would sound downright weirdRight what is 'jonesing'? As in 'jonesing for a pummeling'?