Means, "right in line with your tastes and/or abilities."
Sometimes "down your alley." Means the same thing.
No connection with "up your (anything else)."
If you're a numbers person, very precise, very logical, then cost accounting is right up your allwy.
by Chuck Hastings July 12, 2003
by Chuck Hastings June 30, 2003
A person in charge of some group or of some function, usually a male person. A Japanese word, often mistakenly thought to be of Spanish origin. In Japanese it's a term for a small-time yakuza gangster in charge of just a few underlings, but the underworld flavor has mostly been lost as the word has been adopted into English.
by Chuck Hastings June 30, 2003
A political fence-sitter, who won't come down on either side of the fence and tries to have things both ways. Originally an Algonquin Indian word; used in American politics for more than a century.
He was a mugwump about supporting the Iraq war. He had his mug on one side of that issue, and his wump on the other.
by Chuck Hastings June 30, 2003
Osama bin Laden
Tomas Torquemada
Jerry Falwell
Meir Kahane
Ted Unabomber
One can be a fundamentalist in any religious or secular creed.
by Chuck Hastings June 28, 2003
A Hebrew/Yiddish word, often used (and spelled various ways) in English; particularly used in southern California. There is no exact English equivalent word; `operator' is maybe the closest. A gonif operates on the shadowy borders of illegality and/or impropriety, and gets away with it, and is not quite an outright crook. The word seems to combine proper moral disapproval with sneaking admiration. Reference: 'The Joys of Yiddish,' by Leo Rosten.
Seymour was an accomplished and clever gonif. He could con birds out of trees, and could figure out how to game any bureaucratic system within a few minutes.
by Chuck Hastings June 30, 2003
A female breast. Sounds vaguely Persian (pre-Ayatollah),
and more polite than `jug' or `tit' or `boob' or `hooter' or
`knocker.'
by Chuck Hastings June 28, 2003