deck man--stagehand famous for building stages, a master carpenter. The late Charlie Rasmussen, a Shubert carpenter, was rumored to have leveled his decks with playing cards.
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- Term of the Day: crash-and-burn
- Term of the Day: "Don't worry, you are still on my...
- Term of the Day: conversational headlock
- Term of the Day: "catch of the day"
- Term of the Day: bird-dog someone
- Overheard Stagehand Line #17: “When I learn my cue...
- Term of the Day: a yutz
- Term of the Day: "You're killing me"
- Musician Expression of the Day: "You took the gig-...
- Term of the Day: (to) Wildhorn someone
- Term of the Day: winging it
- Term of the Day: willing lambs to the slaughter
- Term of the Day: unauthorized choreography
- Term of the Day: Union lights out
- Term of the Day: virtual shaping
- Term of the Day: throw me in
- Term of the Day: top shelf
- Term of the Day: equity cots
- Term of the Day: "You got to be in it to win it"
- Term of the Day: "If you like him, invite him to d...
- Term of the Day: robo-coffee
- Term of the Day: get it on the load out
- Term of the Day: George M. Cohan's back pocket
- Term of the Day: flush the truck
- Term of the Day: on standby
- Term of the Day: butter hands
- Term of the Day: bounce the curtain
- Term of the Day: blacklist
- Term of the Day: Broadway hungry
- Term of the Day: book the flat
- Term of the Day: blowing their wad
- Term of the Day: battlefield conditions
- Historical Line of the Day: "Wasn't it your turn t...
- Term of the Day: his famous disappearing act
- Term of the Day: bleeder
- Term of the Day: acts with his props
- Term of the Day: 20-foot rule
- Term of the Day: “What’s the worst thing about hav...
- Term of the Day: “McHale’s was my off-Broadway cre...
- Term of the Day: “We don’t need no heroes.”
- Term of the Day: annuity-buster
- Term of the Day: BFD
- Term of the Day: bouncing around
- Term of the Day: brain surgery
- Term of the Day: “Call the hall”
- Term of the Day: cruller
- Term of the day: deaf and dumb (D & D)
- Historical Term of the Day: Dressers’ Rebellion
- Term of the Day: first sweep
- Term of the Day: fuck knuckle
- Term of the Day: Giuliani barriers
- Term of the Day: go-to guy
- Term of the Day: get your ticket
- Term of the Day: good-enough stiff
- Term of the Day: “Greek it out”
- Term of the Day: gravy
- Term of the Day: holidays
- Term of the Day: to be piped, to get piped
- Term of the Day: T.V. commando
- Term of the Day: "SU/SU"
- Good Luck Term of the Day: to step in shit
- Term of the Day: keep your cards close to your chest
- Term of the Day: spreading the wealth around
- Term of the Day: "somebody's got a tax shelter"
- Term of the Day: SOL
- Term of the Day: "slapped on the pee pee"
- Term of the Day: “the Scottish play”
- Term of the Day: "When you're mad"
- Term of the Day: "Where are you stacking them?"
- Term of the Day: you reap what you sow
- Term of the Day: "You're killing me"
- Term of the Day: “Who do I have to fuck to...”
- Term of the Day: "You can't break iron"
- Term of the Day: working my last good nerve
- Musician Line of the Day: Why is the musicians loc...
- Term of the Day: “This is not a job. This is a hos...
- Term of the Day: "You the boss, I'm the hoss"
- Term of the Day: walker
- Term of the Day: underminer
- Term of the Day: triple threat
- Term of the Day: site survey
- Term of the Day: senior man
- Term of the Day: road dog
- Term of the Day: rice-bowl issue
- Term of the Day: pull your punches
- Term of the Day: prop trauma
- Term of the Day: pre-resume culture
- Term of the Day: perfect load-in weather
- Term of the Night: "shit rolls downhill"
- Term of the Night: scut work, scut job
- Saying of the Day: Screw me once, shame on you. Sc...
- Term of the Night: schmo
- Term of the Night: "Say anything, tell them nothing"
- Term of the Night: sandbar
- Term of the Night: robbing Peter to pay Paul
- Term of the Day: can’t get arrested
- Term of the Night: "piss on that sandbag"
- Term of the Night: (to) pile on
- Term of the Day: "I don't know. I'm not paid to know"
- Term of the Day: prop genius
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- 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.
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