OT: fruit expressions as urban slang

[bags27]

on another thread, UcMiami writes: "While we Uconn fans have reason to believe in the ability to created undefeated seasons, and to even string two together, there are just too many chances for it to go pear shaped on some night" I had to look up pear shaped in an on-line urban dictionary

then, reading a football fan's take on UConn's win streak, I came across the expression, "that's bananas".
UConn coach Geno Auriemma has a great take on Bill Belichick's success
ditto with checking an urban dictionary.

What other fruits (or vegetables or flowers?) do we use as slang?

 

[CocoHusky]

on another thread, UcMiami writes: "While we Uconn fans have reason to believe in the ability to created undefeated seasons, and to even string two together, there are just too many chances for it to go pear shaped on some night" I had to look up pear shaped in an on-line urban dictionary

then, reading a football fan's take on UConn's win streak, I came across the expression, "that's bananas".
UConn coach Geno Auriemma has a great take on Bill Belichick's success
ditto with checking an urban dictionary.

What other fruits (or vegetables or flowers?) do we use as slang?

You are nuts! Urban enough for ya?

 

[UcMiami]

'peel a tomato' - or just tomato on its own has lots of different and rather sexual connotations.
'what a peach'
apple of one's eye
hot tamale

 

[meyers7]

Rotten Tomatoes
Nice melons
Heard it through the grapevine
The Big Apple
He's a real stringbean
Orange Crush
Cauliflower ears

 

[RowdyFan]

What a bunch of Boloney.

 

[RowdyFan]

Bags, this really is a piece of cake!

 

[Sonny44]

on another thread, UcMiami writes: "While we Uconn fans have reason to believe in the ability to created undefeated seasons, and to even string two together, there are just too many chances for it to go pear shaped on some night" I had to look up pear shaped in an on-line urban dictionary

then, reading a football fan's take on UConn's win streak, I came across the expression, "that's bananas".
UConn coach Geno Auriemma has a great take on Bill Belichick's success
ditto with checking an urban dictionary.

What other fruits (or vegetables or flowers?) do we use as slang?

This thread could only have been started by a fruitcake!

 

[JavaMan]

I may never eat a salad again.

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[BroadwayVa]

on another thread, UcMiami writes: "While we Uconn fans have reason to believe in the ability to created undefeated seasons, and to even string two together, there are just too many chances for it to go pear shaped on some night" I had to look up pear shaped in an on-line urban dictionary

then, reading a football fan's take on UConn's win streak, I came across the expression, "that's bananas".
UConn coach Geno Auriemma has a great take on Bill Belichick's success
ditto with checking an urban dictionary.

What other fruits (or vegetables or flowers?) do we use as slang?

top banana, big apple, coconuts---you lived a sheltered life to have to look up--'that's banana's"

 

[VAMike23]

Sour grapes

Apple bottom

a real Lemon (bad car purchase)

 

[BroadwayVa]

Rotten Tomatoes
Nice melons
Heard it through the grapevine
The Big Apple
He's a real stringbean
Orange Crush
Cauliflower ears

Hey guy--youse, musta come outa onea da boro's!! Cuz-youse no's wat I'ze nose. Orange crush was/is a nice orange drink.
I won't touch the melons' comment (I said comment) and only boxers have cauliflower ears.
Good stuff!!

 

[BroadwayVa]

Bags, this really is a piece of cake!

It would be if this want about FRUIT slang.

 

[HuskyBandDad]

It would be if this want about FRUIT slang.

Cake is fruit to many people.

 

[BroadwayVa]

'peel a tomato' - or just tomato on its own has lots of different and rather sexual connotations.
'what a peach'
apple of one's eye
hot tamale

is Tamale a fruit? I suppose if it has tomatoes in it --Sexual connotations?? (what a peach--speaking of how one looks?) (what peach of a car) ( she's a Georgia peach has been said of Basketball players)
(my son or my daughter is the--apple of my eye ) Hot tamale--(I'll give you that may/can be sexual)
You are correct--I lived a sheltered life--

 

[BroadwayVa]

Y\

Cake is fruit to many people.

You are correct---When my doctor says you should eat more fruit--I buy a pineapple upside down cake, or an apple pie, or peach cobbler.

 

[BroadwayVa]

Sour grapes

Apple bottom

a real Lemon (bad car purchase)

I've had one or two of them--my 2011 -came with no front caster adjustments and it was re-aligned 7 times in one year--in 50 years of driving I only had one other aligned --2011 sonata hyundia--dumped that one. A lemon!!

 

[Phil]

I may never eat a salad again.

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I don't carrot all for that remark

 

[BroadwayVa]

'peel a tomato' - or just tomato on its own has lots of different and rather sexual connotations.
'what a peach'
apple of one's eye
hot tamale

My apology---I focused on FRUIT and failed to fully read --veggies and flowers--or I would have used--Lilly livered
a real petunia, cabbage head, turnip top, carrot top, --so my question of Hot tamale was out of place--.

 

[UcMiami]

a rose by any other name (rosy cheeked, etc.)
wallflower
peaches and cream complexion
buttercup

 

[alexrgct]

Don't be a crabapple. Calm down, and we'll figure this out.

In honor of Gwen Stefani, "this [stuff] is bananas/ b-a-n-a-n-a-s!!!"

 

[alexrgct]

Then there's that song Peaches by The Presidents of the United States of America

And the politically/historically charged Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday. That's a good one.

 

[CL82]

Cake is fruit to many people.

 

[Charliebball]

technically a tomato is a fruit right?

tomato can ‎(plural tomato cans)

1. (slang, boxing, derogatory) An inferior fighter in the sport of boxing. The insinuation is that an up-and-coming fighter takes on a "tomato can" to burnish his reputation and record.

 

[meyers7]

Hey guy--youse, musta come outa onea da boro's!! Cuz-youse no's wat I'ze nose. Orange crush was/is a nice orange drink.

and only boxers have cauliflower ears.
Good stuff!!

Wrestlers.

 

[meyers7]

Then there's that song Peaches by The Presidents of the United States of America

Good song, and then there is always, Ninjas

 

[Zorro]

The whole enchilada. Sour grapes. Layers of the onion. Candy ass.

 

[JordyG]

What a bunch of Boloney.

What a bunch of Boloney.

 

[JordyG]

You're all a bunch of coconuts. Last night's game classified ND as lily-livered. Money used to be called lettuce or cabbage. People get red as a beet or can be a potato head. Groups of people can "coffee clutch". Ideas are seeds of thought. Teeth, usually false ones, can be called Chiclets (made of gum). Some ceilings are popcorn ceilings. So many more.

 

[Charliebball]

Phil Rizzuto used to call players and other folks Huckleberries during Yankees games......

 

[tomcat]

Bananas has been around since I was a kid, which means 50-60 years, anyway, maybe longer. You can substitute another slang term, "bonkers," which pretty ,much means the same thing.

I've had one or two of them--my 2011 -came with no front caster adjustments and it was re-aligned 7 times in one year--in 50 years of driving I only had one other aligned --2011 sonata hyundia--dumped that one. A lemon!!

Pear-shaped is much less popular, though my Wikipedia source says that it is used in the U.K. a lot. How it got started is in dispute, but Wikipedia says the Oxford English Dictionary cites its first use as in the Royal Air Force around 2003.