Vulgar slang equivalent to Breaking someones balls Similarly ‘busting my ass’ It’s the sort of thing foreigners speaking English, might say, having heard it in a movie But to English ears it sounds a bit wierd and if someone said it to me, I’d raise an eyebrow
Whats the origin of the idiom bust ones chops? The odd thing about the exhaustion dorm of "bust one's chops" is that the person is said to be busting his or her own chops Still the idea of working to exhaustion by "busting one's chops" is no stranger as an image than doing so by "busting one's ass "
american english - What is the origin of breaking ones balls . . . Why you gotta be busting my balls all the time Or he's a real ball buster Comes from the practice of castrating bulls by breaking their balls with the end of a stick Also, when someone is a pain in the ass all the time, and drives your spirit down with their nonsense, they are a real ball buster Busting balls keeps people humble as well
single word requests - Adjective slang that describes a person who . . . In US slang, there is (to be) busting and the verb bust is a variant of burst spec To be desperate for the toilet Chiefly with for or to Also to be ready to bust - OED Apparently, it is still used in British slang also as OED provides examples from recent British publications Here are the last two citations: From Mixmag (a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine), 1994: Rob was
phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Busting someone's balls generally, where I live, is more about getting on to someone about something - sometimes just to get a rise out of them, often to take them to task over an issue
What is the meaning of Bussin juugs? - slang 5 bussin should be interpreted as busting (it's written as "bustin" on Gucci Mane's t-shirt in the official video of the song) juugs is also sometimes spelled joogs I believe it derives from the word "drug" As a noun, it seems to mean something like a small-time drug dealer, or the act of selling a small quantity of drugs
Is there a word akin to hungry or thirsty that implies a need to . . . Sometimes (at least in Australia - perhaps those from other Anglophone countries can tell us whether they use it too) we say, 'I am busting to go to the toilet' 'Busting' means that you REALLY need to urinate The question asks for a word like 'hungry' Well, this word is more like 'starving' So it does imply quite an urgent need to urinate