When someone smiles, you ask them a question or if they're going to do something. They smile and nod and you think they've got this, but they haven't. They then proceed to do nothing about it whatsoever. And the whole nod was just a lie.
verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-204b · clerk J.B.
See also TML-1936 (q.v.) · TML-3317 (q.v.)
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Simply falling asleep after a very large, perhaps a little bit boozy, Sunday lunch.
verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-201 · clerk P.W.
The sleep response you get to an old film or a very posh headbutt. †
verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-204b · clerk N.R.
What a mother does to a father in front of the children when discussing things that aren't for the ears of young children.
verified Dr. R. Hollis · TML/F-217 · clerk S.T.A.
The song a DJ plays to trigger a giveaway competition.
verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-201 · clerk D.E.H.
The look any member of staff gives you when they're giving you something for free on the slide.
verified Mr. G. Coleridge · TML/F-204 · clerk N.R.
The signal given to you by your father-in-law over Sunday dinner to indicate he would like a top-off of his wine, but he doesn't want to alert your mother-in-law. Otherwise, he'll say, he's had enough and they'll be leaving shortly, therefore ruining the fun.
verified Dr. M. Vassiliou · TML/F-217 · clerk M.L.
When a football manager on the touchline mimes heading the ball into the goal. Only for the centre forward to miss.
verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-204b · clerk B.J.W.
When an apprentice is finally being given permission to perform a meaningful task, they have received the old Babington nod.
verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-217 · clerk S.T.A.
The greeting you give a guy you don't know at a wedding, but who was at the stag do. You know you know him, but you really don't know him. You've seen some things together.
verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-204 · clerk J.B.
A horse racing tip, preferably from someone called Jonty with high hair.
verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-201 · clerk S.T.A.
The acknowledgement given by a random stranger as you walk back from the jukebox in the pub. They're recognising your very good choice of song. ideally given within the first four bars of the song.
verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-204b · clerk C.P.
When you and a stranger both realising you're watching an idiot together and give the little tut and sideways nods.
verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-201 · clerk C.P.
When you walk into a busy barber's and he just looks up fleetingly to nod and acknowledge you in the mirror.
verified Dr. M. Vassiliou · TML/F-204 · clerk R.O.M.
When the bar is packed and people jump in the queue, but the barman lets you know you're next in line and not to worry.
verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-204b · clerk J.B.
What the boxing referee does after splitting up an older shot waltz. It's to start the fight again.
verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-204b · clerk H.M.
What you do towards the landlord in your local just as you walk in the door, so he pulls your pint before you've even hit the bar.
verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-217 · clerk P.W.
The reaction you give to your pint of beer after the first sip. ⁂
verified Dr. R. Hollis · TML/F-217 · clerk P.W.