working my last good nerve--annoying someone. "You are working my last good nerve." (a line often used by the late and very talented Sal Sclafani, longtime roadman and House Propman at the Hirschfeld Theatre)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Blog Archive
-
▼
2020
(158)
-
▼
March
(125)
- 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
-
▼
March
(125)
Followers
About Me
- Dylan Foley
- (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.
No comments:
Post a Comment