A doctor and a lawyer were attending a cocktail party when the doctor was approached by a man who asked advice on how to handle his ulcer.
The doctor mumbled some medical advice, then turned to the lawyer and asked,
"How do you handle the situation when you are asked for advice during a social function?"
"Just send a bill for such advice" replied the lawyer.
On the next morning the doctor arrived at his surgery and issued the ulcer-stricken man a $50 bill.
That afternoon he received a $100 bill from the lawyer.
- colloq. Bad smell. hum and haw (or ha) hesitate; be indecisive. [imitative]
HUN
n. - offens. German (esp. In military contexts).
- member of a warlike asiatic nomadic people who ravaged europe in the 4th–5th c.
- vandal. hunnish adj. [old english]
HUT
n. Small simple or crude house or shelter. [french hutte from germanic]
HACK
—v. - cut or chop roughly.
- football etc. Kick the shin of (an opponent).
- (often foll. By at) deliver cutting blows.
- cut (one's way) through foliage etc.
- colloq. Gain unauthorized access to (data in a computer).
- slang manage, cope with; tolerate.
- (as hacking adj.) (of a cough) short, dry, and frequent. —n. - kick with the toe of a boot.
- gash or wound, esp. From a kick.
- a mattock. B miner's pick. [old english]
- —n. - a = *hackney. B horse let out for hire.
- person hired to do dull routine work, esp. Writing. —attrib. Adj. - used as a hack.
- typical of a hack; commonplace (hack work). —v. Ride on horseback on a road at an ordinary pace. [abbreviation of *hackney]
HADJ
var. Of *hajj.
HAFT
n. Handle of a dagger, knife, etc. [old english]
HAHA
n. Ditch with a wall in it, forming a boundary or fence without interrupting the view. [french]
HAIL
mary n. The ave maria (see *ave).
- —n. - pellets of frozen rain.
- (foll. By of) barrage or onslaught. —v. - a (prec. By it as subject) hail falls. B come down forcefully.
- pour down (blows, words, etc.). [old english]
- —v. - signal to (a taxi etc.) To stop.
- greet enthusiastically.
- acclaim (hailed him king).
- (foll. By from) originate or come (hails from leeds). —int. Archaic or joc. Expressing greeting. —n. Act of hailing. [old norse heill: related to *wassail]
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