pinchy-- (adj.) cheap. to be pinchy. Short for penny pincher. "That company manager is really pinchy."
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- Term of the Day: too handy
- Term of the Day: transfer legs
- Term of the Day: laid and paid
- Term of the Day: lawsuit waiting to happen
- Stagehands I have Known #3: Le Miza Bob
- Term of the Day: longitis
- Term of the Day: the long knives are out
- Term of the Day: lurgy
- Term of the Day: mad skills
- Term of the Day: manna from the heavens
- Term of the Day: Martini Beck
- Term of the Day: Mastercard
- Term of the Day: Miss Congeniality
- Term of the Day: Moscow sprayer
- "moving deck chairs on the Titanic"
- Term of the Day: moxie
- Term of the Day: "much, much better than new"
- Term of the Day: nice-guy rage
- Term of the Day: noble failure
- Term of the Day: Old Faithful
- Term of the Day: on life support
- Term of the Day: On-the-job training
- Term of the Day: rank smell of self pity
- Term of the Day: peanut hours
- Scam of the Day: phantom production
- Term of the Day: pinchy
- Term of the Day: pirate eye
- Term of the Day: please-and-thank-you house
- Term of the Day: to poach
- Term of the Day: Polish Tea Room
- Term of the Day: post-Tony shakeout
- Term of the Day: pre-resume culture
- Term of the Day: prop trauma
- Term o the Day: "Props: same pay, half the weight"
- Wardrobe Term of the Day: "puddle the dress"
- Term of the Day: pull it out of my ass
- Term of the Day: the fix was in
- Term of the Day: robbing Peter to pay Paul
- Term of the Day: to throw under the bus
- Term of the Day: top dog
- Term of the Day: unauthorized choreography
- Term of the Day: union thug
- Term of the Day: (the) usual suspects
- Term of the Day: virtual shaping
- Term of the Day: Weeping Willow
- Classic Expression of the Night: "What a bad day t...
- Term of the Day: vultures start circling
- Term of the Day: walker
- Term of the Day: watch your 6
- Term of the Day: "We'll get it on the loadout"
- Term of the Day: "We're going to run it!”
- Term of the Day: "What am I, chopped liver?"
- Term of the Day: Who's who in the zoo
- Term of the Day: (to) Wildhorn someone
- Term of the Day: willing lambs to the slaughter
- Term of the Day: wood
- Term of the Day: to work someone over with a ball-...
- Term of the Day: working my last good nerve
- Term of the Day: work me like a rented mule
- Term of the Day: "Where are you stacking them?"
- Term of the Day: “Who do I have to fuck to...”
- Term of the Day: underminer
- Expression of the Day: "You can make a lot of mone...
- Term of the Day: "You can't break iron"
- Term of the Day: "You can't hit a moving target"
- Term of the Day: "You don't need four years at MIT...
- Term of the Day: "You're killing me"
- Term of the Day: you reap what you sow
- Term of the Day: a yutz
- Term of the Day: "You the boss, I'm the hoss"
- Term of the Day: acts with his props
- Term of the Day: above my pay grade
- Term of the Day: a vista scene change
- Term of the Day: "An actress wouldn't piss on you ...
- Term of the Day: annuity-buster
- Term of the Day: ass-kissing overdrive
- Term of the Day: asshole move
- Term of the Day: bird-dog someone
- Term of the Day: “Big trouble”
- Term of the Day: Broadway adjacent
- Term of the Day: break your shovel
- Term of the Day: bringing him along
- Term of the Day: brick in the wall
- Term of the Day: Broadway ADD
- Term of the Day: brouhaha
- Term of the Day: "conversations with myself"
- Term of the Day: death number
- Term of the Day: death of a thousand cuts
- Term of the Day: dinner theater
- Term of the Day: dry drunk
- Term of the Day: an elaborate song and dance routine
- Term of the Day: elder tantrum
- Term of the Day: failed bully
- Term of the Day: "Forever came"
- Term of the Day: freeloading situation
- Term of the Day: French alteration
- Term of the Day: ginsu
- Term of the Day: to go Ghandi on someone
- Term of the Day: good Rolodex
- Term of the Day: (to) blow someone up
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- (The photo above is very old.) I presently carry out author interviews for the website LitHub.com, but before that I worked as a book columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger from January 2002 to June 2012. I have written for the New York Observer, the New York Post, the Denver Post and other newspapers.
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