2.spend money

3. joining in

4. got real mad

5. he is planning something

A backhanded compliment is an insult disguised as a compliment.

“You look so much prettier than usual.” or “You have such a pretty face.” (implying the rest of you is a basket case.

2. drop a dime has several meanings:

Spend $10

Spend ten cents on a phone call.

In crime slang like you might see on a cop show, to drop a dime is specificallly to make a telephone call to the police to inform on or betray someone.

3. jump on the bandwagon

The bandwagon takes part in a parade. It is a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band. Politicians used to use a bandwagon to draw crowds. In particular, political parades were often accompanied by a band on a wagon. Political leaders often joined them in the hope of gaining popular support. From this history, the phrase came to mean to join a popular movement in support of someone or something, often in an opportunist way.

This works for fashion trends as well as politics. For example…

When baggy pants became fashionable, everyone jumped on the bandwagon. (In other words…When baggy pants became fashionable, everyone started wearing them.)

4. hit the wall- When you hit the wall, you’ve gone as far as you can go. You’re exhausted. You’ve passed the point of exhaustion. The wall referred to is your maximum effort. You have run until you dropped. (Or you’ve done anything to the max–worked, tried, exercised, created, painted, whatever.)

(Conversely, if you somehow keep on going, you may get a second wind. But that’s another expression.)

5. up his sleeve

This is a gambling term. IF you’re a card player who doesn’t get the cards you want to win a hand, if you cheat by sneaking a card up your sleeve…that is what this term refers to. In fact, specifically this ould be ‘an ace up your sleeve’. Of course, you should know this is cheating, and a very bad thing. However, the term has evolved now, to mean that you have a secret plan no one else knows about. If you’re in business, and your committee has “hit the wall,” if they’re really lucky and you’re the team leader, you still have something up your sleeve, something else you can work on that will help you all win the day. In this sense, it is not cheating; it is just strategy.

1. Backhanded compliment- it’s a compliment but one the receiver may find rude or offensive, so although the intentions were good, it came out wrong.

2. Drop a dime- I’ve never heard that expression used but it may mean something like you drop a fact, just to throw it in there.

3. Jump on the bandwagon- Bandwagons are the group opinion or idea, a trend. When you jump on this idea or trend, you’re following the herd and joining the group. You’re following the trend.

4. Hit the wall- Obviously you aren’t hitting the wall but when someone is angry or upset, letting off steam may involve hitting the nearest object that won’t run away from them, usually the wall. So if your parents are hitting the wall, you better stay clear

5. Up his sleeve- a magician may literally hide something up his sleeve, making him appear deceptive. But when a normal person is playing, let’s say poker, and they are hiding something up their sleeve, they may have a trick or an idea that you cannot see or comprehend, so they are hiding it from you. Just as you wouldn’t be able to see the card up the magician’s sleeve.

also called left-handed compliment or asteism, a backhanded compliment is an insult hidden behind a compliment so as to make it more subtle. They usually involve sarcasm and irony.

2) Drop a dime

To snitch on someone, usually to the police, and usually to save one’s own skin. Comes from the old cost for a payphone call, ten cents.

3) Jump on the bandwagon

Do something because most other people are doing it, usually following a trend. Here’s what wikipedia says is the origin:

Literally, a bandwagon is a wagon which carries the band in a parade, circus or other entertainment.[1] The phrase ‘jump on the bandwagon’ was first used in American Politics in 1848 as a result of Dan Rice, ‘President Lincoln’s Court Jester.[2] Campaigning for Zachary Taylor, Dan Rice, a professional circus clown, used his bandwagon for Taylor’s appearances, gaining attention by way of the music. As Taylor’s campaign became more successful, more politicians strove for a seat on the bandwagon, hoping to be associated with the success. Later, during the time of William Jennings Bryan’s 1900 presidential campaign, bandwagons had become a standard fixture of campaigns,[3] and ‘jump on the bandwagon’ was used as a derogatory term, implying that people were associating themselves with the success without considering what they associated themselves with.

4) Hit the Wall

Two def. people use:

a) when you do something a lot and reach the point where you cannot continue….as in somebody who has ran until they hit the wall….or they became so tired they couldn’t continue. In some areas, they use it to refer to being unable to continue drinking, doing drugs, etc.

b) when a girl, who usually used to be decent-looking, becomes ugly

5) Up His Sleeve

Implying that there is something, esp. something that shouldn’t be there, “up his sleeve”….though not literally “up his sleeve”, but just hidden. Magicians may say, “there is nothing up my sleeve”, to show that they did not hide something that helped them do the trick in their sleeves.

Hope this helped!

2. drop a dime – to rat on someone; to tell

3. jump on the bandwagon – to join in on something only because so many people are doing it (like a fad)

4. hit the wall – to run out of energy

5. up his sleeve – has an ulterior motive

2. Someone who rats on someone else has just dropped a dime (originally coined because phone calls used to cost a dime and when someone dropped a dime into the phone and called the police it was called “dropping a dime”)

3. Join in the group.

4. No more choices.

5. A schemer.

2. Tell the authorities – especially the IRS on someone.

3. Agree with the crowd.

4. Get stopped right in your tracks by your limitations – usually physical.

5. He maintains secrets which he divulges when he feels like it.

GOD bless us always.

MBA-Boston Univ.

2. screw up

3. Become a fan of a team only when they are winning

4. lose energy??

5. Someone trying to scam you

2- tell on someone; report something

3- join in

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5- hidden trick