This thread was closed because it was a 12-year-old zombie, but I wanted to add a contribution.
My phrase is “buttocks whipper.” A buttocks whipper is a lopsided contest (usually used in the context of a baseball, basketball, or football game). A basketball or football game is a buttocks whipper when one team is leading by at least 20 points, and a baseball game is a buttocks whipper when someone has a 10-run lead.
There are also double buttocks whippers, triple buttocks whippers, and so on. A basketball or football team is getting doubly buttocks whipped when it is losing by 40 points, and it’s a triple buttocks whipper when there’s a 60-point margin.
I invented the term when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. Originally, a basketball or football game was a buttocks whipper when there was a 16-point margin, but I quickly changed it to 20 to simplify the math.
I even invented a symbol: it’s a crude drawing of someone’s buttocks (essentially a rounded “W” shape) with a curved line representing the whip. It looks sort of like this: UU_/. A double buttocks whipper has two whips: UU_/_/
I looked at the old thread - I was surprised by how many people thought they had coined in the last few years very common words or phrases or names.
I have a friend who will always explain his inane and obcious “coinings”. ‘Bought these ribs at the Shop Lite - I call the Shop Rite Shop Lite.’ yeah, thanks
I didn’t coin the phrase, but I coined a hand gesture to emphasize an existing phrase.
When I dismissively say “Whatever,” I hold my right hand up with 3 fingers to represent W as I say “what,” then tilt the same fingers sideways to represent E as I say “ever.”
I keep waiting for this to catch on, but I’ve yet to see anybody else do it.
We were using “voo-zhah day” 25-30 years ago, in college. There, we used it for “that feeling when you sit down to take a test, and you realize that you’ve seen none of this before”. While I know which one of my friends taught me the term, I’m reasonably certain that he didn’t come up with it, either.
The only trend I’ve ever started is when I got a good chunk of people at my high school using “nautical” as semi-ironic slang in the vein of “radical.”
Reading the same book over and over again to my then 3-year-old got pretty boring. So I would make her laugh by replacing the animals with somehow-related fruits and vegetables (elephant became peanut, lion became lemon, etc). She, in trying to ask me one day to read it with the food names, but not able to speak very well, said what sounded like “mommy can you read it with the foodonyms?” Perfect!
Not an exact match but it is similar in tone to “Right church wrong pew” which I’ve heard all my life.
When I was in Iraq there were nicknames for all the top brass. I happened to be in a minor position that came in contact with many of them LTG Frank Helmick was one of the top generals there at the time (I see he is now retired). He had let’s say a bit of a prickly personality. I dubbed him Dark Helmick (you know, from Spaceballs). My bosses liked it and picked up on it. I later heard others from well outside of our unit use the name. It’s possible that someone else came up with it independently I suppose.
Mine started with the South Park joke about lesbians “scissoring.” I was joking with my sister about her new girlfriend (now her wife), and we started riffing on variations on scissoring, involving pinking shears and those fancy hole punches. This led to the use of the term “scrapbooking” for more adventurous lady/lady sex.