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sharp cookie
A particularly smart, witty, or clever person. Dan: "I'm having a heck of a time doing my taxes, I just don't understand it at all." Steve: "You should get in touch with my uncle, he's one sharp cookie!" We're always looking to hire sharp cookies like you.
tough cookies
An interjection indicating that one has no sympathy for the situation another person is in or how that person feels about it. Sam: "When you said I'd be getting a car for my birthday, I didn't think it would be some beat-up old van like this!" Dad: "Well, tough cookies! You should be thankful to have a car at all!" A: "Ugh, I feel so horrible this morning." B: "Tough cookies. If you want to drink yourself silly, then that's the price you pay."
juice and cookies
trivial and uninteresting snacks or refreshments. The party was not much. Nothing but juice and cookies. After juice and cookies, we all went back into the meeting room for another hour of talk, talk, talk.
shoot one's cookies
and shoot one's breakfast; shoot one's supperSl. to empty one's stomach; to vomit. I think I'm gonna shoot my cookies. I shot my supper, and I was glad to get rid of it.
snap one's cookies
Sl. to vomit; to regurgitate. I think I'm gonna snap my cookies. some jerk snapped his cookies on the sidewalk.
toss one's cookies
Sl. to vomit. Don't run too fast after you eat or you'll toss your cookies. Oh, I feel terrible. I think I'm going to toss my cookies.
tough luck
and tough cookiesThat is too bad. (Said as a reply to someone relating an unfortunate situation.) Tough luck, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. That's too bad, tough cookies.
tough luck
(spoken) I do not have any sympathy for your problems
Anyone who misses three classes will fail, and if you don't like it, tough luck! Usage notes: sometimes used to say you are sorry that someone is having problems: If a beggar approached us, she would murmur “tough luck” and give him a few coins.
toss one's cookies
Vomit, as in A roller-coaster ride may make her toss her cookies. This slangy euphemism dates from the first half of the 1900s.
blow (one’s) cookies
tv. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. Okay, if any of you guys gotta blow your cookies or something, do it here, not inside!
blow cookies
verbdrop one’s cookies
tv. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. (see also
toss one’s cookies.)
If you feel like you’re going to drop your cookies, don’t do it on the carpet. shoot one’s cookies
and shoot one’s breakfast and shoot one’s supper tv. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. I shot my supper, and I was glad to get rid of it. Whoa! I think I’m gonna shoot my cookies!
snap one’s cookies
tv. to vomit; to regurgitate. Some jerk snapped his cookies on the sidewalk.
toss one’s cookies
and throw one’s cookies and toss one’s lunch and toss one’s tacos tv. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. Fred stepped over to the bushes and raucously tossed his tacos. Yuck! He tossed his cookies in the backseat!
throw one’s cookies
verbtough luck
and tough cookies interj. That is too bad. Tough luck, but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. Tough cookies, Tom! That’s life.
tough cookies
verbwoof cookies
tv. to vomit. Waldo had to woof cookies in the bushes.
toss (one's) cookies
To vomit.