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smooth operator	A person who accomplishes tasks with efficiency and grace, especially one with verbal skills who is persuasive in interpersonal relationships, negotiation, etc.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
smooth operator	A skillful, manipulative person, con artist, or clever scoundrel.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
adding machine	A pocket calculator that has very few functions.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
bolt bucket	A machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
brass ring	One and one half inch diameter iron rings were offered riders on a Carousel by a dispensing device alongside: A Brass Ring was inserted into the dispenser at random. The Carousel Rider who succeeded in snatching the Brass Ring was rewarded A Free Ride upon return to the Operator of the Brass Ring:	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
fruit machine	one arm bandit	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
in the works	In a mechanism or machine.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
crank out	To produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine.	Rate it: (4.00 / 5 votes)
dial in	configure, set up, particularly a complex machine with many configuration options.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
sex machine	Someone with considerable sexual prowess.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
take up	That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.	Rate it: (4.00 / 4 votes)
bring up	To turn on power or start, as of a machine.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
stitch up	To close by sewing.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
hop up	to make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.)	Rate it: (1.50 / 2 votes)
call screening	the process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before deciding how or whether to answer it. Some methods may include: listening to the message being recorded on an answering machine or voice mail. checking a caller ID display to see who or where the call is from.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
change sides, change signs	A mnemonic indicating that when a value is moved to the opposite side of the equals sign, then the operator is changed also.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ghost in the machine	a term used to describe the concept of mind-body dualism: that the mind exists alongside and separate from the body; also an album by The Police	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in control	When one is controlling a machine, or a situation, or an activity. Similar to in charge, but one person can be officially in charge, while another person is, in fact, in control.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
kick the bucket	Of a machine, to break down such that it cannot be repaired.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
oil burner	A machine that uses oil as its fuel.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
poop machine	An infant.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
poop machine	An animal whose defecation inconveniences humans.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
put one through one's paces	To test several or all functions or training of a person, animal, machine, etc.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
random number	A number allotted randomly using suitable generator (electronic machine or as simple "generator" as die).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
real job	A job that can't be replaced advantageously by a machine or a procedure.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run down	To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sew up	To seal by sewing.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sex machine	refers to a person who has a lot of sex	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)